Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH 04/13] building: Delete when cloning, not when preparing $builddir

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 11:29 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 04/13] building: Delete when 
> cloning, not when preparing $builddir"):
> > On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 11:18 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > The rumpuserxen xen.git build is done (also, must be done) in a tree
> > > which has not had any ordinary build done in it.
> > 
> > OK, then I'm just confused about the purpose of this change ;-)
> > 
> > I thought you were reusing the build tree.
> 
> This change is needed because previously prepbuilddirs would delete
> the whole per-job directory.

Ah, I see.

> I will add some text to the commit messages to clarify this:
> 
>   building: Delete when cloning, not when preparing $builddir
>   ...
> 
>   This makes it possible for later steps within a build job to look at
>   the build trees from previous steps.  This is helpful if for any
>   reason it isn't easy or desirable to package up a formal set of build
>   outputs for reuse.

Thanks, makes sense.

> 
> And
> 
>   rump kernel tests: Do a xen.git tools build
>   ...
> 
>   ts-rumpuserxen-build does not generate a formal set of build outputs.
>   Instead, the ts-xen-build step references the files generated by
>   ts-rumpuserxen-build directly (and is told where to find them via the
>   new command prefix runvars).
> 
> Ian.



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