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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: fam@euphon.net, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	berrange@redhat.com, f4bug@amsat.org, stefanha@redhat.com,
	crosa@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	aurelien@aurel32.net
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/6] docs/devel: expand on use of containers to build tests
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:14:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210222101455.12640-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210222101455.12640-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

Expand on the usage of containers for building tests and why we have
some that are not used to build QEMU itself.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 docs/devel/testing.rst | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index 00ce16de48..488d4e3537 100644
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
@@ -272,10 +272,10 @@ Note that the following group names have a special meaning:
 
 - disabled: Tests in this group are disabled and ignored by check.
 
-.. _docker-ref:
+.. _container-ref:
 
-Docker based tests
-==================
+Container based tests
+=====================
 
 Introduction
 ------------
@@ -1001,10 +1001,17 @@ for the architecture in question, for example::
 There is also a ``--cross-cc-flags-ARCH`` flag in case additional
 compiler flags are needed to build for a given target.
 
-If you have the ability to run containers as the user you can also
-take advantage of the build systems "Docker" support. It will then use
-containers to build any test case for an enabled guest where there is
-no system compiler available. See :ref:`docker-ref` for details.
+If you have the ability to run containers as the user the build system
+will automatically use them where no system compiler is available. For
+architectures where we also support building QEMU we will generally
+use the same container to build tests. However there are a number of
+additional containers defined that have a minimal cross-build
+environment that is only suitable for building test cases. Sometimes
+we may use a bleeding edge distribution for compiler features needed
+for test cases that aren't yet in the LTS distros we support for QEMU
+itself.
+
+See :ref:`container-ref` for more details.
 
 Running subset of tests
 -----------------------
-- 
2.20.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-22 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22 10:14 [PATCH v2 0/6] testing/next (meson check-tcg, fedora bump, docs) Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] meson.build: expose TCG cross compiler information in summary Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] docker: Bump Fedora images to release 33 Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] tests/acceptance: allow a "graceful" failing for virtio-gpu test Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 15:44   ` Probing Meson for build configurations (was: [PATCH v2 3/6] tests/acceptance: allow a "graceful" failing for virtio-gpu test) Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
2021-02-22 16:05     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-22 10:14 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2021-02-22 11:39   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] docs/devel: expand on use of containers to build tests Thomas Huth
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/devel: update the container based tests Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 11:46   ` Thomas Huth
2021-02-22 12:14     ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 12:15       ` Thomas Huth
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] docs/devel: add forward reference to check-tcg Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 11:36   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 12:16   ` Thomas Huth
2021-02-24  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] testing/next (meson check-tcg, fedora bump, docs) Richard Henderson

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