gitlab: speed up msys windows jobs with GCC

[PATCH 8/8] gitlab: disable FF_SCRIPT_SECTIONS on msys jobs

Posted by Daniel P. Berrangé 2 years, 6 months ago

The FF_SCRIPT_SECTIONS=1 variable should ordinarily cause output from
each line of the job script to be presented in a collapsible section
with execution time listed.

While it works on Linux shared runners, when used with Windows runners
with PowerShell, this option does not create any sections, and actually
causes echo'ing of commands to be disabled, making it even worse to
debug the jobs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
index 552e3b751d..cd7622a761 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
   needs: []
   stage: build
   timeout: 80m
+  variables:
+    # This feature doesn't (currently) work with PowerShell, it stops
+    # the echo'ing of commands being run and doesn't show any timing
+    FF_SCRIPT_SECTIONS: 0
   artifacts:
     name: "$CI_JOB_NAME-$CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG"
     expire_in: 7 days
-- 
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Re: [PATCH 8/8] gitlab: disable FF_SCRIPT_SECTIONS on msys jobs

Posted by Thomas Huth 2 years, 6 months ago

On 01/08/2023 15.04, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The FF_SCRIPT_SECTIONS=1 variable should ordinarily cause output from
> each line of the job script to be presented in a collapsible section
> with execution time listed.
> 
> While it works on Linux shared runners, when used with Windows runners
> with PowerShell, this option does not create any sections, and actually
> causes echo'ing of commands to be disabled, making it even worse to
> debug the jobs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> index 552e3b751d..cd7622a761 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml
> @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
>     needs: []
>     stage: build
>     timeout: 80m
> +  variables:
> +    # This feature doesn't (currently) work with PowerShell, it stops
> +    # the echo'ing of commands being run and doesn't show any timing
> +    FF_SCRIPT_SECTIONS: 0
>     artifacts:
>       name: "$CI_JOB_NAME-$CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG"
>       expire_in: 7 days

Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>