On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 21:05:27 UTC, Iain Buclaw
wrote:
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.
...
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++).
Installation and creation of the tar ball now works as expected.
It contains a folder named after the build_target triplet and
includes the libstdcxx, libphobos headers/sources as well as the
static/shared libs, the binaries and man pages.
It took 1:54 to build and weighs 316MB but it isn't stripped yet.
Still waiting on the results of make install-strip and with
pre-compiled headers disabled.
Once those are done I'll setup a github action to upload the tar
ball to the repository releases.
Maybe it would be a good idea to tag the directory name with a
version ID or to make a version directory there and install into
that ?
