On Tue, 02/14 15:09, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > > > On 14 February 2017 at 10:07, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > >> This provides a basic Debian install with access to the emdebian cross > >> compilers. The debian-armhf-cross and debian-arm64-cross targets build > >> on the basic Debian image to allow cross compiling to those targets. > > > > Is there a particular reason for creating different docker images > > for each cross target rather than just having one image with > > all the cross compilers in it? > > Mainly the clashing of build-dependencies. Debian's multi-arch is pretty > good but you still can't generally have two arches worth of complex > dependencies installed at once. > > I did originally have one base docker image with all the compilers and > intended to do the dependencies step as part of test-build. However when > running as builders the docker images don't actually have network > ability so couldn't download them.
Yes, having to "prepare", especially to download things, for each test invocation is not resource friendly for CI too. Fam
