The lab recently received a request to re-enable Alpine compile jobs, which have been disabled for almost a year. In dry running the compile job, I noticed that it was failing. At the same time, David Marchand did an Alpine compile with Github Actions which was successful. It seems the source of the different behavior is the meson buildtype being used - the build script used by GHA sets meson buildtype to debugoptimized, whereas the script used by the community lab runs with buildtype debug (the meson default). I did my own Github Actions runs (with both buildtype options) to sanity check:
https://github.com/PatrickRobbIOL/dpdk/actions/runs/4427160204/jobs/7764368640The reason I'm writing this email is that I'm wondering whether the buildtype decision made by those who wrote .ci/linux-build.sh for GHA was intentional and important. I know many of the people who have commits on that script follow this mailing list. Obviously if it's in some way more appropriate for CI purposes to run meson setup in this way, I'm happy to make that change at the lab and in the process that would free up bringing Alpine compile testing online. But, if not, then I think it's most appropriate to consider compile on Alpine as broken and avoid bringing coverage for Alpine online until that issue is resolved.
