Re: [Libguestfs] [libnbd RFC PATCH] First stab at CI infrastructure
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:24:20PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 05:49:30PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>One bug: All the new files that have been added probably need to be
>added to the top-level Makefile.am EXTRA_DIST, certainly if they would
>be in any way useful in the tarball. However if they are not useful
>in the tarball then the target "maintainer-check-extra-dist" (also in
>Makefile.am) must be modified to ignore these files when I do
>"make && make dist && make maintainer-check-extra-dist".
>
I did not really check more than just running the tests, but if there is
any workflow that you have, then we can incorporate it in there, so that
it checks as much as possible. I tried running `make distcheck` and
there were some harder failures than these, so I wanted to start small.
I meant the patch needs to be updated so it either adds these files to
EXTRA_DIST (ie. the tarball) or the maintainer-check-extra-dist rule
is fixed to ignore them.
> go install: version is required when current directory is not in
a module
...
There are couple more, but they are the same failure. Basically
anything that builds with clang (BSD and MacOS by default and CentOS 8
is running both GCC and clang variants) will error out due to unused
string vector functions. Unfortunately those are generated.
libnbd supports only Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. It probably would
work on MacOS but I haven't tried it. We do support clang on the
supported platforms, but because we don't use CI it's not tested very
often so I don't know if it works right now.
Example:
https://gitlab.com/nertpinx/libnbd/-/jobs/1140619387
GCC does not find this even with --enable-gcc-warnings (already used).
I'm not sure to what extent we want to use --enable-gcc-warnings on
the non-Linux platforms. What does libvirt do here? Do they aim to
have GCC warnings clean even on non-Linux?
One last thing that I forgot to mention, but I definitely wanted to
ask
about is whether there is a reason behind not erroring out when some
configure option is requested, but cannot be fulfilled. For example
`--with-libxml2` when pkg-config cannot find it will just result in a
warning that most people will miss.
If ‘./configure --with-libxml2’ is used then it's a bug if libxml2 is
not present.
But libxml2 is an optional dependency so if they didn't specify
‘--with-libxml2’ and libxml2 is not available it should work.
So yes it's a bug.
Anyway, I updated some details and ran it again:
https://gitlab.com/nertpinx/libnbd/-/pipelines/283351379
Let's see what's going to pop up next.
golang seems to be failing hard there :-(
Looks it fails with libnbd is not already installed (which is a bug).
I'll see if I can fix that one.
Thanks,
Rich.
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