[edk2-devel] [Patch 1/1] EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI: stick with "ubuntu-18.04" for now

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 12/21/20 14:47, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 12/21/20 04:19, Bob Feng wrote:
>> "vm_image: 'ubuntu-latest'" now refers to Ubuntu Focal (20.04LTS), not
>> Ubuntu Bionic (18.04LTS), according to
>> <https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1816>.
>>
>> In Focal, the "qemu" package is a dummy package with no dependencies, and
>> so the actual emulators are not pulled in. Compare:
>>
>>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/qemu
>>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qemu
>>
>> This causes CI runs to fail.
>>
>> It would be best to switch to the "qemu-system" package name, which
>> continues to depend on the emulators:
>>
>>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/qemu-system
>>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qemu-system
>>
>> However, while that package does make the emulators available, the
>> emulators crash. So for now, stick with the previous Ubuntu environment,
>> which continues to be supported, per
>> <https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1816>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng at intel.com>
>> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish at apple.com>
>> Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni at intel.com>
>> ---
>>  EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml b/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml
>> index 0e5f4d9961e3..17d62bb69ec5 100644
>> --- a/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml
>> +++ b/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml
>> @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ pr:
>>    - master
>>  jobs:
>>    - job: Platform_CI
>>      variables:
>>        package: 'EmulatorPkg'
>> -      vm_image: 'ubuntu-latest'
>> +      vm_image: 'ubuntu-18.04'
>>        should_run: false
>>        run_flags: "MAKE_STARTUP_NSH=TRUE"
>>  
>>      #Use matrix to speed up the build process
>>      strategy:
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> 
> I'm going to merge this at once, because it's blocking other pull
> requests.
> 
> I can see that this patch reuses the commit message from my commits
> 90683caedf1e ("ArmVirtPkg/PlatformCI: stick with "ubuntu-18.04" for
> now", 2020-12-18) and c487970ac89d ("OvmfPkg/PlatformCI: stick with
> "ubuntu-18.04" for now", 2020-12-18).
> 
> When I wrote those patches, I obviously did *not* miss EmulatorPkg.
> However, EmulatorPkg does not use QEMU in CI -- that's the reason my
> series did not cover EmulatorPkg. I did not foresee any reason for
> EmulatorPkg's CI tasks to fail with Ubuntu 20.04LTS.
> 
> And now that I'm actually checking such an (unexpected) failure, it's
> not QEMU-related. Instead, it's a GCC issue:
> 
> https://dev.azure.com/tianocore/edk2-ci/_build/results?buildId=17230&view=logs&j=7cda4867-6a98-5508-f20e-3046bf80e19c&t=9a255493-65b4-5c45-e228-bf6eb3567b30&l=1150
> 
>> INFO - "gcc" -o /home/vsts/work/1/s/Build/EmulatorIA32/DEBUG_GCC5/IA32/Host -m32 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,--start-group,@/home/vsts/work/1/s/Build/EmulatorIA32/DEBUG_GCC5/IA32/EmulatorPkg/Unix/Host/Host/OUTPUT/static_library_files.lst,--end-group -lpthread -ldl -lXext -lX11
>> INFO - /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
>> INFO - /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc
>> INFO - /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
>> INFO - /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc
>> INFO - collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> INFO - make: *** [GNUmakefile:421: /home/vsts/work/1/s/Build/EmulatorIA32/DEBUG_GCC5/IA32/EmulatorPkg/Unix/Host/Host/DEBUG/Host] Error 1
> 
> Therefore, when I merge this patch, I will update the commit message to
> refer to a GCC linking issue rather than to QEMU.

I have also filed:

https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2324

Thanks
Laszlo



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