Re: [PATCH v5 00/17] testing: various docker clean-ups post meson tcg conversion (pre-PR)

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com> writes:

> On 9/17/2026 9:55 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This cleans up a few bits and pieces although doesn't totally solve
>> the issue of an apparent stall while meson builds the docker image.
>> However with these changes there should be no difference between the
>> meson build and the equivalent "make docker-image-foo" invocation.
>> 
>> We also finally get rid of the ill-advised magic caching support in
>> docker.py.
>> 
>> v5
>>  - fixup a bunch of rebase damage
>>  - swap out my ccache fix for Anders
>>  - rename revert to "configure: ensure it also honours container configuration"
>>  - use Pierricks solution for avoid too many SKIPs while validating config
>>
>
> It seems that this version removes patch:
> Revert "tests/tcg/meson.build: implement ./configure -cross-cc-* options"
>
> That's fine and correct, but we're missing two things:
> - cross-cc-cflags and prefix should be passed to config.mak also
> (similar to the merge for container options). Not strictly needed as I'm
> not sure anyone needs this "extra" flexibility for roms/vdso, but needed
> if we want to make sure we don't break anything for anyone.

The rom builds are outside the main makefile anyway so they just include
random bits as they want.

> - scripts/meson_buildoptions.sh update that was missing originally for
> those meson options.

We need to do something about it because at various times
"update-buildoptions" does and doesn't change things. Sometimes there
are more options than I've been messing with. It is super confusing.

>
> For the rest, it looks good and ready!
>
> Regards,
> Pierrick

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro