[tlbuild] running TL24 pretest on OpenBSD

[Robert Alessi]

Hi Mojca and Norbert,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:01:21AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 06:07, Norbert Preining wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/Build/source/.github/scripts/build-tl.sh b/Build/source/.github/scripts/build-tl.sh
> > index e9bcd5ee3ce..8b39d2c9bf5 100755
> > --- a/Build/source/.github/scripts/build-tl.sh
> > +++ b/Build/source/.github/scripts/build-tl.sh
> > @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ then
> >       freebsd)
> >         env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg install -y gmake gcc pkgconf libX11 libXt libXaw fontconfig perl5
> >         ;;
> > +     openbsd)
> > +       pkg_add gmake gcc pkgconf libX11 libXt libXaw fontconfig perl5
> 
> You can do an additional test with gcc, but as Robert pointed out
> already, the default clang should work just fine and is probably
> preferred.
> 
> You could optionally add something like
>     pkg_add -uv
>     syspatch
> before(?) installing the packages if you want to make sure that
> everything is up to date.

Better call syspatch before pkg_add -u

Every morning, when coffee's brewing, I do

syspatch
fw_update
pkg_add -u

And of course tlmgr update --all ;)

> Depending on whether the idea is for the binaries to end up with TL
> (as opposed to just checking that there are no build issues),
> you would probably want to have multiple (most likely two) instances
> of OpenBSD builds, for example openbsd6.4 and openbsd6.3 (soon
> replaced by openbsd6.5).

Precisely.  Ideally, one should do this work on two different
machines:

1. One running -stable (to date, it is 7.4)
2. Another one running -current

Knowing that there are two releases/year.  That is the problem with
TL.  Including OpenBSD would require compiling the binaries for that
system say in March and September.

> (I didn't check how adding a version influences the rest of the script.)
> 
> Of course it makes sense to first start with one version and get that
> one working. There should be no difference in building the other
> version (other than more confusing yaml syntax).

Yes, most probably.

r

> 
> Mojca