Yes, so we are apparently using an ASF hosted server. As a quick way of handling this I put up this proposed change where we run the ARM tests separately. https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/2721
That with an updated README we should for now at least have a simple way to see which part went wrong. WDYT? Niels On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM Zoltan Csizmadia <zcsizma...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are several options to build for ARM using github workflows: hosted > server , qemu and using macos-14 image. > > 1. Hosted server: dependency on an external server > 2. qemu: extremely slow > 3. macos14: Transparent usage compared to other run images, eg. > ubuntu-latest, windows-latest. Con is that I am not sure if avro can be > compiled on macos-latest (because of size constraints). There are > macos-large and xlarge images, however those are not free. > > I have put together an example project which builds a simple C# project on > Ubuntu 22.04 (x64), Windows 10 (x64), Darwin 21.6 (x64), Darwin 23.2 > (arm64). It demonstrates a unified way to build and run a sample project on > the 4 above images. Check the Run step output, which shows the OS and > architecture info. > > https://github.com/zcsizmadia/test-arm64 > https://github.com/zcsizmadia/test-arm64/actions > > https://github.com/zcsizmadia/test-arm64/actions/workflows/test-multi-os.yml > > Maybe something similar could be used for the avro build. > > Regards, > Zoltan > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 7:33 AM Niels Basjes <ni...@basjes.nl> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that most of the build failures are currently related to the > ARM > > build system being flaky. > > So we see that the Java build or the C# build has failed ... but really > it > > was the ARM server not responding. Not a real error in the code and/or > > build itself. > > > > How should we handle this? > > > > Can we ignore it if the build server is dead/slow/not responding? > > Or should we simply disable the ARM builds? > > > > -- > > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, > > > > Niels Basjes > > > -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes
