Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci.yml: Avoid some submodules to speed up the CI a little bit

[Thomas Huth]

On 26/01/2021 13.08, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 1/21/21 6:44 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > Since the meson build system rework, the configure script prefers the
> > git submodules over the system libraries. So we are testing compilation
> > with capstone, fdt and libslirp as a submodule all over the place,
> > burning CPU cycles by recompiling these third party modules and wasting
> > some network bandwidth in the CI by cloning the submodules each time.
> > Let's stop doing that in at least a couple of jobs and use the system
> > libraries instead.
> >
> > While we're at it, also install meson in the Fedora container, since
> > it is new enough already, so we do not need to check out the meson
> > submodule here.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   .gitlab-ci.yml                               | 6 +++++-
> >   tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker      | 1 +
> >   tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-amd64.docker | 1 +
> >   tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora.docker       | 3 +++
> >   tests/docker/dockerfiles/ubuntu2004.docker   | 1 +
> >   5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> So now which are the jobs left building from git submodule clone?

All the jobs which don't have a depending test stage jobs should still use 
the submodules, e.g. build-oss-fuzz, build-tci, etc.
Also the centos7-based jobs still use all submodules, e.g. 
build-crypto-old-nettle etc.

 Thomas