[Libguestfs] [libnbd RFC PATCH] First stab at CI infrastructure

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 05:39:17PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>  - clang failures:
>    https://gitlab.com/nertpinx/libnbd/-/jobs/1163504401

I don't usually enable warnings with clang, but I've pushed this which
fixes the problem above (and a further one) for me:

  https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/28816a5f8829f474d07351611140f461facd0e4d

>  - golang test failures on OpenSUSE:
>    https://gitlab.com/nertpinx/libnbd/-/jobs/1163504416

This is actually because:

  checking for nbdkit... no

but we go ahead and run the golang tests anyway.  Fixed here:

  https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/b15dde588f47894f9656ea62eb632156b7638b8b

but there may be more problems after this, we'll see.

>  - one weird ubuntu 18.04 failure:
>    https://gitlab.com/nertpinx/libnbd/-/jobs/1163504418

This has golang 1.10 which predates the inclusion of modules.  There's
basically no sane way to make libnbd work with both old and new
golang, so I would suggest --disable-golang on this platform.  (In
fact is it possible to disable features on different CI platforms?)

> and if you want to be able to run `make distcheck` as well, there are
> some builddir/srcdir issues in golang/Makefile.am I believe, so VPATH
> building actually fails.  I added the `make distcheck` step to one of
> the jobs here:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/nertpinx/libnbd/-/jobs/1163504412

I think "make distcheck" is a nice-to-have but ISTR that making it
work was a lot of work for libguestfs.

> In order not to bother you with every single e-mail I would suggest that
> I push some incomplete version in the repository and you can see
> yourself (and others as well) how the build behaves.  What do you say?
> I won't look at it earlier than tomorrow anyway.

Sure, go for it.

Thanks again,

Rich.

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