Re: [RFC PATCH v5 3/8] CI: Add build-system-rust-debian job

[Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:39, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 02:43:33PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
>> Add job that builds with rust support enabled on debian.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 11 +++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
>> index e3a0758bd9..e025e2cbf6 100644
>> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
>> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
>> @@ -107,6 +107,17 @@ crash-test-debian:
>>      - make NINJA=":" check-venv
>>      - pyvenv/bin/python3 scripts/device-crash-test -q --tcg-only ./qemu-system-i386
>>  
>> +build-system-rust-debian:
>> +  extends:
>> +    - .native_build_job_template
>> +    - .native_build_artifact_template
>> +  needs:
>> +    job: amd64-debian-container
>> +  variables:
>> +    IMAGE: debian
>> +    CONFIGURE_ARGS: --enable-rust
>> +    TARGETS: aarch64-softmmu
>> +
>
>Do we actually want to do this ?  With the updated lcitool containers,
>any of the existing build-system-XXXX jobs ought to be able to detect
>availability of rust and build with it. Re-using existing jobs means
>we burn less CI time.
>
>With regards,
>Daniel

Hello Daniel,

I think we do, as long as a rust toolchain is not required to build QEMU 
by default. The other jobs could detect availability of Rust but we 
don't have a way to check if it works and not fallback to compiling 
without Rust.

Could we force enable Rust in one of the existing jobs?

Manos