Re: [PATCH] fuzz: avoid building twice, when running on gitlab

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 12:18, Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu> wrote:
>
> On oss-fuzz, we build twice, to put together a build that is portable to
> the runner containers. On gitlab ci, this is wasteful and contributes to
> timeouts on the build-oss-fuzz job. Avoid building twice on gitlab, at
> the remote cost of potentially missing some cases that break oss-fuzz
> builds.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
> ---
>
> From a couple test runs it looks like this can shave off 15-20 minutes.
>
>  scripts/oss-fuzz/build.sh | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

I tried a test run with this, but it still hit the 1 hour timeout:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/pipelines/350387482

-- PMM