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Chandler Carruth 04793ba525 Disable build stamping by default (#6654)
Previously, we left it on by default and only disabled it in CI.
However, as we have grown more and more examples, the cost of stamping
has steadily risen: every example has to be rebuilt because the busybox
binary and installation contain an updated stamp.

I noticed that I was almost never getting cache hits for these even when
I should and it seems like what was once true is no more for daily
development.

I've updated the default, the docs for the default, and explicitly
enabled stamping in the nightly release workflow. I left the explicit
disabling in the CI workflows as that seems harmless and a good defense
in case we want to shift the default again.

One alternative that I didn't pursue because of the complexity was to
create two distinct installation prefixes automatically, one with the
`.nostamp` suffixed binaries installed and one without that suffix. We
could then point example builds and other within-Bazel uses at the
non-stamped tree to get maximal caching. But it would create two whole
installation trees without much benefit. It seemed simpler to just
disable stamping by default for development builds.
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# Part of the Carbon Language project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM
# Exceptions. See /LICENSE for license information.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
#
# This workflow creates a GitHub "release" of a nightly build of the project.
#
# Note: This is just an initial rough attempt, there is a lot of future work
# needed here. A brief summary of TODOs:
#
# - Configure a nice release notes template and switch to generating the title
# and notes instead of hard coding them.
#
# - Do some amount of testing prior to building and uploading the release.
# - Tempting to try to examine existing testing workflow, but maybe better to
# allow reusing any complex parts and do our own testing. That would, for
# example, allow us to narrow or expand the set of tests uses for
# pre-release testing to potentially be different from continuous testing.
# - Some questions around what to do in the event of a failure... error? Where
# does the error go? Create a draft, unpublished release instead?
#
# - Build artifacts for all the different OSes we have GitHub runners for rather
# than just x86 Linux.
name: Nightly Release
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 2 * * *'
# Enable manual runs for testing or manually (re-)creating a nightly release.
workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
contents: write # For creating and uploading to releases.
jobs:
release:
runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
steps:
- name: Harden Runner
uses: step-security/harden-runner@17d0e2bd7d51742c71671bd19fa12bdc9d40a3d6 # v2.8.1
with:
egress-policy: block
# When adding endpoints, see README.md.
# prettier-ignore
allowed-endpoints: >
*.dl.sourceforge.net:443
api.github.com:443
bcr.bazel.build:443
downloads.sourceforge.net:443
github.com:443
oauth2.googleapis.com:443
objects.githubusercontent.com:443
releases.bazel.build:443
sourceforge.net:443
storage.googleapis.com:443
uploads.github.com:443
- name: Checkout branch
uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
- name: Set up remote cache access
env:
REMOTE_CACHE_KEY: ${{ secrets.CARBON_BUILDS_GITHUB }}
run: |
echo "$REMOTE_CACHE_KEY" | base64 -d > $HOME/remote_cache_key.json
echo "remote_cache_upload=--google_credentials=$HOME/remote_cache_key.json" \
>> $GITHUB_ENV
- uses: ./.github/actions/build-setup-common
with:
matrix_runner: ubuntu-22.04
remote_cache_upload: ${{ env.remote_cache_upload }}
- name: Get nightly date
run: |
echo "nightly_date=$(date '+%Y.%m.%d')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Build release
run: |
./scripts/run_bazel.py \
--attempts=5 --jobs-on-last-attempt=4 \
test -c opt --stamp --remote_download_toplevel \
--pre_release=nightly --nightly_date=${{ env.nightly_date }} \
//toolchain \
//toolchain/install:carbon_toolchain_tar_gz_rule \
//toolchain/install:carbon_toolchain_tar_gz_test
- name: Extract the release version
run: |
# Make sure we can run the toolchain to get the version.
./bazel-bin/toolchain/carbon version
# Now stash it in a variable and export it.
VERSION=$( \
./bazel-bin/toolchain/carbon version \
| cut -d' ' -f5 | cut -d'+' -f1)
echo "release_version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Create the release
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
gh release create \
--title "Nightly build ${{ env.nightly_date }}" \
--generate-notes \
--prerelease \
v${{ env.release_version }} \
"bazel-bin/toolchain/install/carbon_toolchain-${{ env.release_version }}.tar.gz"