New subject: [Bug 47849] Simplify BuildCross() in Build.pl

30 Sep 2019


      https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47849
Bug ID: 47849
           Summary: Simplify BuildCros() in Build.pl
           Product: Wine-Testbot
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: fgouget@codeweavers.com
      Distribution: ---
Build.pl is the script that's responsible for building PE executables that can
be used to runt he tests on Windows VMs.
Currently it's still jumping through hoops to produce PE executables (see
BuildNative() and BuildCross()), which is most likely unnecessary since Wine
now builds all tests as PE executables by default.
So that code could likely be simplified but we would not want to lose speed
advantage either: the build VM never compiles a full Wine which means patches
touching headers don't cause 45+ minutes builds. Also the current code still
works so it's not necessarily urgent.
Side note:
In fact it could be argued that the build VMs are unnecessary now since any
Wine VM could produce these PE executables. There's some caveats with that
though:
- Wine may not produce PE executables on some platforms. For instance for a
while it looked like MinGW was not usable on NetBSD, forcing the TestBot to
produce only regular ELF executables. That got fixed but the issue may happen
again on other Unix platforms. Maybe.
- In the absence of support for load balancing it's useful to have a separate
build VM to spread the load. That VM could be a repurposed Wine VM though.
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[Bug 47849] New: Simplify BuildCros() in Build.pl