Standalone builds for Linux aarch64 (aka arm64) #489
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Conditions on the Nextstrain CLI version being requested, as aarch64 builds¹ will only be available going forward for new releases. Assumes the next release will be 10.4.2! We must wait to merge this until after the first release (i.e. 10.4.2) of the changes it depends on above. ¹ <#489>
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Conditions on the Nextstrain CLI version being requested, as aarch64 builds¹ will only be available going forward for new releases. Assumes the next release will be 10.4.2! We must wait to merge this until after the first release (i.e. 10.4.2) of the changes it depends on above. ¹ <#489>
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I believe CI should be passing now, but the test-standalone (os=ubuntu-22.04, target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) job seems to be consistently hanging during an initial |
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| # Our aarch64 (linux/arm64) image still contains some x86_64 (amd64) | ||
| # executables and so requires the ability of the host to emulate x86_64. | ||
| # On macOS, which is the primary reason we have an aarch64 image, this is | ||
| # expected to be provided by Rosetta 2. On Linux, we expect it to be QEMU, | ||
| # which we set up here. | ||
| - if: runner.os == 'Linux' && runner.arch == 'ARM64' | ||
| run: docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install amd64 | ||
| shell: bash -l -eo pipefail {0} |
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I would've used docker/setup-qemu-action since it's what's used in the docker-base repo, but this seems fine. From what I can tell, the docker action is effectively a wrapper around this command with some predefined defaults and image caching.
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| - if: runner.os != 'macOS' && runner.os != 'Windows' | ||
| - if: runner.os != 'macOS' && runner.os != 'Windows' && !(runner.os == 'Linux' && runner.arch == 'ARM64') |
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This is getting difficult to read. I'd add a comment along the lines of
Skip Singularity on macOS, Windows, and Linux ARM64
and similarly for the other conditions.
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GitHub released public runners.¹ This will ultimately let us use standalone installation archives in our linux/arm64 Docker images.² Changes to the standalone installer to follow separately³, as those need to be held for merge until after the first release with these builds available. ¹ <https://github.blog/changelog/2025-01-16-linux-arm64-hosted-runners-now-available-for-free-in-public-repositories-public-preview/> ² <nextstrain/docker-base#273> ³ <#490>
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GitHub released public runners.¹ This will ultimately let us use standalone installation archives in our linux/arm64 Docker images.²
Changes to the standalone installer to follow separately³, as those need to be held for merge until after the first release with these builds available.
¹ https://github.blog/changelog/2025-01-16-linux-arm64-hosted-runners-now-available-for-free-in-public-repositories-public-preview/
² nextstrain/docker-base#273
³ #490
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