bitcoin/ci
MarcoFalke e7db4e245a
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#24164: build: Bump minimum required clang/libc++ to 8.0
fae20e6b50 Revert "Avoid the use of P0083R3 std::set::merge" (MarcoFalke)
fab53b5fd4 ci/doc: Set minimum required clang/libc++ version to 8.0 (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  This is not for 23.0, but for 24.0. It comes with the following benefits:

  * Can use C++17 P0083R3 std::set::merge from libc++ 8.0
  * No longer need to provide support for clang-7, which already fails to compile on some architectures (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/21294#issuecomment-998098483)

  This should be fine, given that all supported operating systems ship with at least clang-10:

  * CentOS 8: clang-12
  * Stretch: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/clang-11
  * Buster: https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/clang-11
  * Bionic: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic-updates/clang-10
  * Focal: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/clang-10

ACKs for top commit:
  fanquake:
    ACK fae20e6b50 - I think this is fine to do. I would be surprised if in another 6 months time someone was stuck on a system we supported, needing to compile Core, and only had access to Clang 7 or older. As mentioned in the PR description, all systems we currently support, already support multiple newer versions of Clang.
  hebasto:
    ACK fae20e6b50, I have reviewed the code and it looks OK, I agree it can be merged.

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2022-03-12 10:37:05 +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#24164: build: Bump minimum required clang/libc++ to 8.0 2022-03-12 10:37:05 +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.