Re: [PATCH 1/7] tests/docker: Use Fedora containers for MinGW cross-builds in the gitlab-CI

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 08:07:42PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 21/09/2020 20.03, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:43:14PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> According to our support policy, we do not support Debian 9 in QEMU
> >> anymore, and we only support building the Windows binaries with a
> >> very recent version of the MinGW toolchain. So we should not test
> >> the MinGW cross-compilation with Debian 9 anymore, but switch to
> >> something newer like Fedora. To do this, we need a separate Fedora
> >> container for each build that provides the QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS
> >> environment variable.
> >> Unfortunately, the MinGW 64-bit compiler seems to be a little bit
> >> slow, so we also have to disable some features like "capstone" in the
> >> build here to make sure that the CI pipelines still finish within a
> >> reasonable amount of time.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  .gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml                   | 10 +++++
> >>  .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml                  |  4 +-
> >>  .../dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker     | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>  .../dockerfiles/fedora-win64-cross.docker     | 38 +++++++++++++++++
> >>  4 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>  create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker
> >>  create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win64-cross.docker
> >>
> >> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> >> index 8c89efeb6d..15e7b564f9 100644
> >> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> >> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> >> @@ -248,6 +248,16 @@ i386-fedora-cross-container:
> >>    variables:
> >>      NAME: fedora-i386-cross
> >>  
> >> +win32-fedora-cross-container:
> >> +  <<: *container_job_definition
> >> +  variables:
> >> +    NAME: fedora-win32-cross
> >> +
> >> +win64-fedora-cross-container:
> >> +  <<: *container_job_definition
> >> +  variables:
> >> +    NAME: fedora-win64-cross
> >> +
> >>  amd64-ubuntu1804-container:
> >>    <<: *container_job_definition
> >>    variables:
> >> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> >> index 4ec7226b5c..510cfec03b 100644
> >> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> >> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> >> @@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ cross-s390x-user:
> >>  cross-win32-system:
> >>    <<: *cross_system_build_job_definition
> >>    variables:
> >> -    IMAGE: debian-win32-cross
> >> +    IMAGE: fedora-win32-cross
> >>  
> >>  cross-win64-system:
> >>    <<: *cross_system_build_job_definition
> >>    variables:
> >> -    IMAGE: debian-win64-cross
> >> +    IMAGE: fedora-win64-cross
> >> diff --git a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000000..5903e1b0b4
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
> >> +FROM fedora:32
> >> +
> >> +# Please keep this list sorted alphabetically
> >> +ENV PACKAGES \
> >> +    bc \
> >> +    bzip2 \
> >> +    diffutils \
> >> +    findutils \
> >> +    gcc \
> >> +    gettext \
> >> +    git \
> >> +    hostname \
> >> +    make \
> >> +    meson \
> >> +    mingw32-bzip2 \
> >> +    mingw32-curl \
> >> +    mingw32-glib2 \
> >> +    mingw32-gmp \
> >> +    mingw32-gnutls \
> >> +    mingw32-gtk3 \
> >> +    mingw32-libjpeg-turbo \
> >> +    mingw32-libpng \
> >> +    mingw32-libtasn1 \
> >> +    mingw32-nettle \
> >> +    mingw32-nsis \
> >> +    mingw32-pixman \
> >> +    mingw32-pkg-config \
> >> +    mingw32-SDL2 \
> > 
> > It feels like we could be removing the mingw packages from the
> > main fedora.docker now, so it results in smaller images.
> 
> I wasn't quite sure whether anybody uses the mingw packages in that main
> fedora docker image ... Philippe, do you know?

A actually patchew uses this  "docker-mingw@fedora".

So I guess we merge this one. Then update patchew, then delete the
mingw stuff from @fedora.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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