Hi Hans On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 03:29:41PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > We have been working on simplifying the media maintenance, and one part of that is > standardizing on build tools, in particular to make it easier for patch submitters > to run their patches through the same set of tests that the daily build does. > > This helps detect issues before you submit your patches. > > I have been working since July on transforming my hackish scripts to something > that is easier to use and of better quality. While there are still a few rough > edges, I consider it good enough to have others start to use it. > > To get the build scripts run: > > git clone git://linuxtv.org/hverkuil/build-scripts.git > > All the test builds will happen within this directory. It is completely separate > from where you do you normal development, instead you point it to where your > git repository is. > > See the README contained in the build-scripts git repo for all the details on > how to set it up. > I've been using your scripts since after ELC-E and I can tell they're useful! > Currently the scripts expect a debian 12-based distro (likely debian 11 will work > as well). I have no idea if it works well on Red Hat or Suse. If you use one of > those distros, and you get it to work, then a patch updating the README file with > the correct list of packages to install would be welcome. > Speaking about distros, I was wondering if you still consider a requirement to build all compiler or we should instead try to use the distro provided ones when possible to test the distro-shipped version ? > Please note that running the regression tests using virtme-ng is currently only > supported on Debian 12, not on e.g. Ubuntu. Someone is looking into that, and > hopefully we can support that in the future. Running regressions tests are > primarily useful when making changes to core frameworks and public APIs, and > it is possible to run them manually (see the README). > > Since running this locally can take a fair amount of time, we hope to have > build servers available in the future so this can be offloaded. > > To give an idea of the expected build times: > > On an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (8 cores) a standard build of the staging tree > (build.sh -test all) takes 39 minutes. > > On an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X (32 cores) it takes a bit over 13 minutes. > > Regards, > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > linuxtv-ci mailing list > linuxtv-ci@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxtv-ci
