On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 12:50:57 UTC, wjoe wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 10:42:27 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 09:55:22 UTC, wjoe wrote:

The way it's being done right now is that 'make install' installs to the /usr prefix. After that a tarball of this prefix is created (via tar cJf gdc-triplet.txz /usr). I'm not sure if that's suitable as a release as is because tar omits the root / so the result will be extracted as usr/ There isn't a lot of time budget left in that task but it should be possible to run some more scripts. If the time limit won't suffice it should be possible to cache /usr and move the tar ball script into a new task.


If it follows the convention of the existing packages, it should be fine. e.g: tar extracts gdc into 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/gdc'

The tar ball is 443MiB. That's because it includes half the docker container :)


You should be able to get yourself down to about ~30MB. ;-)

I'll see if there's any miscellaneous tweaks you can do, but the most obvious one is `strip --strip-debug`.

The buildci script [1] uses hard coded --prefix=/usr and lib-dirs=/usr/lib.
Is there a particular reason for that ?
Or, rather, could I just change it or introduce a variable prefix in order to be able to use an isolated directory ?

[1] https://github.com/W-joe/gcc/blob/master-ci/buildci.sh#L274-L280

IIRC, that top line just matches Debian/Ubuntu built gcc (in the hope that no weirdness would happen when running testsuite).

Seems reasonable to break it out into a variable that can be overridden by the CI.

Just looking at an old binary, the builder used `--prefix=/home/build/share/cache/install/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu`. Not saying that you should do the same, but the last part being the target triplet is the key.

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It may only be a marginal gain, but I find that --disable-libstdcxx-pch helps with speeding up incremental builds (a long time is spent compiling headers in libstdc++).



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