bitcoin/ci
MarcoFalke 250598a905
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#26906: test: add an easy way to run linters locally
b68e5a7fef lint: specify the right commit range when running locally (James O'Beirne)
dff7ed5732 test: add an easy way to run linters locally (James O'Beirne)

Pull request description:

  Adds a Dockerfile configuration ~~(originally written mostly by fanquake)~~ that allows straightforward running of linters with compatible versions locally. This removes a ton of annoyance when trying to appease CI, because many of the linter versions are quite old and difficult to maintain locally.

  I realize that people may not be thrilled to add more ancillary tooling to the repo, but I think this makes a lot of sense given the linter versions listed in this container configuration are dictated by this repo (within the CI configuration), so having these things live in two separate places is a recipe for version mismatches.

  Eventually we can likely just use this container on CI directly to avoid any chance of inconsistencies between local dev experience and CI.

ACKs for top commit:
  aureleoules:
    ACK b68e5a7fef
  stickies-v:
    ACK b68e5a7fe
  john-moffett:
    ACK b68e5a7fef

Tree-SHA512: 7ef7a5dae023d81fdb6296d5d92dfa074ee321c7993e607c9f014d0f21c91558611aa00fc3ce1edc7b5e68371aea0d27fa1931291a79bb867a6c783bb536775f
2023-01-19 19:01:28 +01:00
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lint Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#26906: test: add an easy way to run linters locally 2023-01-19 19:01:28 +01:00
retry build: update retry to current version 2019-10-30 18:49:57 -04:00
test Bump minimum python version to 3.7 2023-01-18 12:59:11 +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.