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illumos: add CI using Buildomat #4172

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@sunshowers sunshowers commented Dec 3, 2024

(Rebase and re-do of #4023, which was inadvertently closed. This time the PR is against a branch of mine, not main in my repo, so hopefully this won't happen again.)

Add continuous integration for the x86_64-unknown-illumos target using the buildomat CI service, and fix up issues such that CI passes.

What is buildomat?

Buildomat is a CI service, similar in spirit to services like GitHub Actions. Buildomat is open source, built and maintained by us at Oxide, and is used by our own CI.

Here's an example run with this PR:

As part of this, at Oxide we're committing to maintaining the buildomat support. This includes:

  • Providing compute resources.
  • Maintaining and fixing issues in a timely manner.

In order to have buildomat CI working, the rust-lang project would need to install the buildomat app (allowlisted to libc if desired).

Why another CI system?

The main alternative to buildomat would be something like vmactions.

While vmactions provides an OmniOS build, OmniOS is actually a downstream distribution of illumos that includes several APIs not present in illumos. For example, OmniOS has an inotify implementation but upstream illumos doesn't. It would be easy to accidentally add inotify APIs to libc even though that wouldn't build on other illumos distributions.

More importantly, at Oxide we don't feel confident providing support for a third-party service. We'd like to not just throw CI support over the wall but instead are committed to the long-term health of Rust on illumos. Since we use Buildomat ourselves, we're strongly incentivized to maintain it in a way that wouldn't be true for other solutions.

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Add continuous integration for the x86_64-unknown-illumos target using
the [buildomat] CI service, and fix up issues such that CI passes.

## What is buildomat?

Buildomat is a CI service, similar in spirit to services like GitHub Actions.
Buildomat is open source, built and maintained by us at Oxide, and is used by
our own CI.

Here's an example run with this PR:

* [GitHub](https://github.com/sunshowers/libc/runs/33879292394)
* [Buildomat](https://buildomat.eng.oxide.computer/wg/0/details/01JE79XGDC2N4VB80001F6T20Y/S6TwO6zHQJn0YdrmL6jTMx7b2IhpDb1fa5cLcGHX6eetNyS8/01JE79XW5Z6VCXEZ02FXPWYMCY)

As part of this, at Oxide we're committing to maintaining the buildomat
support. This includes:

* Providing compute resources.
* Maintaining and fixing issues in a timely manner.

In order to have buildomat CI working, the rust-lang project would need to
[install the buildomat app] (allowlisted to libc if desired).

## Why another CI system?

The main alternative to buildomat would be something like [vmactions].

While vmactions provides an OmniOS build, OmniOS is actually a downstream
distribution of illumos that includes several APIs not present in illumos. For
example, OmniOS has an [inotify implementation] but upstream illumos doesn't.
It would be easy to accidentally add inotify APIs to libc even though that
wouldn't build on other illumos distributions.

More importantly, at Oxide we don't feel confident providing support for a
third-party service. We'd like to not just throw CI support over the wall but
instead are committed to the long-term health of Rust on illumos. Since we use
Buildomat ourselves, we're strongly incentivized to maintain it in a way that
wouldn't be true for other solutions.

[Buildomat]: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/buildomat
[install the buildomat app]: https://github.com/apps/buildomat
[vmactions]: https://github.com/vmactions
[inotify implementation]: https://man.omnios.org/7/inotify
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