Re: [PATCH 7/8] gitlab: disable optimization and debug symbols in msys build

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

On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 08:44:02PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 01/08/2023 15.04, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Building at -O2, adds 33% to the build time, over -O2. IOW a build that
> > takes 45 minutes at -O0, takes 60 minutes at -O2. Turning off debug
> > symbols drops it further, down to 38 minutes.
> > 
> > IOW, a "-O2 -g" build is 58% slower than a "-O0" build on msys in the
> > gitlab CI windows shared runners.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 4 ++--
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> > index 34109a80f2..552e3b751d 100644
> > --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> > @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ msys2-64bit:
> >       # commit 9f8e6cad65a6 ("gitlab-ci: Speed up the msys2-64bit job by using --without-default-devices"
> >       # changed to compile QEMU with the --without-default-devices switch
> >       # for the msys2 64-bit job, due to the build could not complete within
> > -    CONFIGURE_ARGS:  --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --without-default-devices
> > +    CONFIGURE_ARGS:  --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --without-default-devices -Ddebug=false -Doptimization=0
> >       # qTests don't run successfully with "--without-default-devices",
> >       # so let's exclude the qtests from CI for now.
> >       TEST_ARGS: --no-suite qtest
> > @@ -123,5 +123,5 @@ msys2-32bit:
> >     variables:
> >       MINGW_TARGET: mingw-w64-i686
> >       MSYSTEM: MINGW32
> > -    CONFIGURE_ARGS:  --target-list=ppc64-softmmu
> > +    CONFIGURE_ARGS:  --target-list=ppc64-softmmu -Ddebug=false -Doptimization=0
> >       TEST_ARGS: --no-suite qtest
> 
> This is IMHO a very good idea! But I think for now it's enough if you only
> change the 64-bit, isn't it?

My thought was if we do it for 32-bit too, we can enable some more targets
to get a more comprehensive build.


With regards,
Daniel
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