Overview:
In order to execute foreign arch binaries on the host system, we are
using the Linux kernel's binfmt_misc feature in combination with
static builds of QEMU. Before this patch, the statically compiled
QEMU binaries were taken from Debian (mostly because I did not realize
that Alpine ships them as well). Now we can use the ones from the aport.
Benefits:
This allows us to easily update and patch the QEMU executables, we
don't need to be in sync with Debian's versions anymore.
Alpine's package is more modular, so we can save some download,
install, zap time, as well as disk space: setting up an armhf chroot
with pmbootstrap took ~102 MB before, now it's ~18 MB.
Detailed changes:
* Remove `cross/qemu-user-static-repack` aport
* Add `data/qemu-user-binfmt.txt` with the binfmt_misc flags for ELF
binaries of various arches (extracted from Debian's packaging)
* When parsing that file, don't write verbose messages to
`pmbootstrap log` anymore, only to the verbose log (can be enabled
with `pmbootstrap -v`)
* Rename `pmb.parse.arch.alpine_to_debian()` to ...`alpine_to_qemu()`
* Rename `arch_debian` to `arch_qemu`
Due to changes in abuild, our `gcc-armhf` etc. packages did not build
when using strict mode (i.e. `pmbootstrap build --strict gcc-armhf`)
anymore.
Changes:
* Set `CBUILDDIR=/`, so apk can read a valid package index from there
* Directly set `_cross_configure`, so it does not use CBUILDDIR anymore
* Set `BOOTSTRAP="nobuildbase"` to prevent apk from installing
`build-base-armhf` etc. (these don't exist in pmOS)
* Remove legacy code for lazy reproducible builds that wrapped
`package()`
Example: Building gcc-armhf for armhf does not make sense, so this
commit changes arch="all" to arch="aarch64 x86_64". This helps to
simplify the repository scripts (#970).
Also don't build "-repack" packages in native chroot anymore.
This was a legacy hack, which has no use anymore, and it prevented
the package from being built for different architectures.
* ccache: Fix for distcc cross-compiling / various improvements
* Make ccache work when cross-compiling with distcc (fix#716)
* Allow to configure the ccache size in "pmbootstrap init"
* Moved ccache stats code from pmb/build/other.py to
pmb/helpers/frontend.py
* Grouped job count, ccache size and timestamp based rebuilds
together to "build options" and allow to skip them
* Sorted config options that had to be modified anyway
alphabetically
* Improve comment in arch-bin-masquerade APKBUILD
Martijn Braam