bitcoin/ci
MarcoFalke 95833c012e
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#23938: ci: Clone entire bitcoin-core/qa-assets repo only when run fuzzing
0b7c55f157 ci: Clone entire bitcoin-core/qa-assets repo only when run fuzzing (Hennadii Stepanov)

Pull request description:

  This PR speeds up CI tasks that run unit tests but do not run fuzzing.

  On my machine:
  ```
  $ time git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/qa-assets
  Cloning into 'qa-assets'...
  remote: Enumerating objects: 289750, done.
  remote: Counting objects: 100% (289750/289750), done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (207687/207687), done.
  remote: Total 289750 (delta 16863), reused 275449 (delta 12092), pack-reused 0
  Receiving objects: 100% (289750/289750), 1.39 GiB | 4.79 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (16863/16863), done.
  Updating files: 100% (294515/294515), done.

  real7m43,417s
  user2m39,771s
  sys0m43,272s
  ```

ACKs for top commit:
  MarcoFalke:
    cr ACK 0b7c55f157

Tree-SHA512: 8f8dd63e361c3d9c64a2b31f207f59beea7d2e4142363f7762ec724a61152323fda0c6b98a36386e15f2ca4ef3f7412da763baef65e862fc7f48cdeda8c40e09
2022-01-06 17:15:17 +01:00
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lint scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2021-12-30 19:36:57 +02:00
retry build: update retry to current version 2019-10-30 18:49:57 -04:00
test Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#23938: ci: Clone entire bitcoin-core/qa-assets repo only when run fuzzing 2022-01-06 17:15:17 +01:00
lint_run_all.sh scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2020-12-31 09:45:41 +01:00
README.md doc: move doc to ci readme 2020-06-19 10:44:00 -04:00
test_run_all.sh scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2020-12-31 09:45:41 +01:00

CI Scripts

This directory contains scripts for each build step in each build stage.

Running a Stage Locally

Be aware that the tests will be built and run in-place, so please run at your own risk. If the repository is not a fresh git clone, you might have to clean files from previous builds or test runs first.

The ci needs to perform various sysadmin tasks such as installing packages or writing to the user's home directory. While most of the actions are done inside a docker container, this is not possible for all. Thus, cache directories, such as the depends cache, previous release binaries, or ccache, are mounted as read-write into the docker container. While it should be fine to run the ci system locally on you development box, the ci scripts can generally be assumed to have received less review and testing compared to other parts of the codebase. If you want to keep the work tree clean, you might want to run the ci system in a virtual machine with a Linux operating system of your choice.

To allow for a wide range of tested environments, but also ensure reproducibility to some extent, the test stage requires docker to be installed. To install all requirements on Ubuntu, run

sudo apt install docker.io bash

To run the default test stage,

./ci/test_run_all.sh

To run the test stage with a specific configuration,

FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh

Configurations

The test files (FILE_ENV) are constructed to test a wide range of configurations, rather than a single pass/fail. This helps to catch build failures and logic errors that present on platforms other than the ones the author has tested.

Some builders use the dependency-generator in ./depends, rather than using the system package manager to install build dependencies. This guarantees that the tester is using the same versions as the release builds, which also use ./depends.

If no FILE_ENV has been specified or values are left out, 00_setup_env.sh is used as the default configuration with fallback values.

It is also possible to force a specific configuration without modifying the file. For example,

MAKEJOBS="-j1" FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh

The files starting with 0n (n greater than 0) are the scripts that are run in order.

Cache

In order to avoid rebuilding all dependencies for each build, the binaries are cached and re-used when possible. Changes in the dependency-generator will trigger cache-invalidation and rebuilds as necessary.