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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# This script enables artifacts holding dependencies on a jenkins job level to
+# speed up builds. Basically, it holds logic to check whether the necessary artifact
+# is available. If so it fetches artifact, unpacks it and if cp/tar succeeded
+# it triggers the actual build.
+#
+# Otherwise it simply builds all dependencies from source by using osmo-build-dep.sh
+# and archives deps to the ARTIFACT_STORE afterwards. Revisions of locally built
+# dependencies are detrmined after dependencies are built to ensure catching new
+# changes in dep_n+1 meanwhile dep_n building.
+#
+# Furthermore, ARTIFACT_STORE environment variable has to be set on all jenkins slaves.
+# The JOB_NAME variables will be injected to each jenkins' job by jenkins itself.
+# When using script within a docker container one must inject jenkins' JOB_NAME variable
+# to the container and ensure that ARTIFACT_STORE is mounted to the container's
+# internal ARTIFACT_STORE.
+#
+# Artifacts will be stored as follows:
+#
+#		$ARTIFACT_STORE/$JOB_NAME/<dep_1>.<branch_1>.<rev_1>_...
+#			..._<dep_n>.<branch_n>.<rev_n>.tar.gz
+#
+# Note: each matrix-build has its own directory inside ARTIFACT_STORE.
+#
+# In order to make use of osmo-build.sh one needs to source it, e.g. from
+# ./contrib/jenkins.sh. Furthermore, jenkins should check out the git tree of
+# the project to be built in the workspace root. Following functions needs to be
+# declared within a build script that sources osmo-build.sh:
+#
+#	- generic_deps()
+#	- build_project()
+#
+# This is an example for building "libosmo-netif" which depends on "libosmocore"
+# and "libosmo-abis".
+#
+# #!/bin/bash
+#
+# # osmo-build.sh must be in PATH
+#	source osmo-build.sh
+#
+#	generic_deps() {
+#   # Holds all required dependencies in the following form:
+#   #
+#   #  x="$(<PARALLEL_MAKE> $1 <dep_project> <branch> <config>)"
+#   #
+#   # $1 will be one of these script/functions:
+#   #     - osmo-build-dep.sh: build a source tree
+#   #     - artifact_name_by_local_repos()
+#   #     - artifact_name_by_remote_repos()
+#   #
+#   # The arguments are:
+#   #
+#   # - PARALLEL_MAKE: override global PARALLEL_MAKE used for make,
+#   #                  (e.g. PARALLEL_MAKE="-j1" to disable mutlithreading)
+#   # - dep_project: the git repository name, gets places in a git.osmocom.org URL.
+#   # - branch: branch (optional: default = master)
+#   # - arg 3: configuration (optional: $cfg used in osmo-build-dep.sh)
+#
+#		x="$($1 libosmocore master ac_cv_path_DOXYGEN=false)"
+#		"$deps"/libosmocore/contrib/verify_value_string_arrays_are_terminated.py $(find . -name "*.[hc]")
+#		x="${x}_$($1 libosmo-abis)"
+#
+#		echo "${x}.tar.gz"
+#	}
+#
+#	build_project() {
+#		# Necessary commands to build the project, expecting all dependencies have
+#		# been build or fetched. Commands within build_project() will be executed
+#		# in jenkins' $WORKSPACE.
+#
+# 	autoreconf --install --force
+# 	./configure --enable-sanitize
+# 	$MAKE $PARALLEL_MAKE
+# 	$MAKE distcheck || cat-testlogs.sh
+#	}
+#
+#	build
+#
+
+
+# BUILD FUNCTIONS
+init_build() {
+
+	if [ -z "$JOB_NAME" ]; then
+		set +x
+		echo
+		echo "[ERROR] JOB_NAME variable is not set, running in Jenkins?"
+		echo
+		set -x
+		exit 1
+	fi
+
+	if [ -z "$ARTIFACT_STORE" ]; then
+		set +x
+		echo
+		echo "[ERROR] ARTIFACT_STORE variable is not set on this build slave"
+		echo
+		set -x
+		exit 1
+	fi
+
+	base="$(pwd)"
+	deps="$base/deps"
+	inst="$deps/install"
+
+	# obtain the project name from the git clone found in the workspace root
+	project=$(git config --get --local remote.origin.url \
+		| cut -d '/' -f4 | cut -d '.' -f1)
+
+	# replace invalid char for dirs in jenkins variable
+	# ( '/' separates job name and matrix-axis)
+	job_name="${JOB_NAME//\//__}"
+
+	export base deps inst project job_name
+	export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$inst/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$inst/lib"
+}
+
+build_deps() {
+	set +x
+	echo
+	echo "[INFO] Compile $project dependencies from source."
+	echo
+	set -x
+
+	mkdir -p "$deps"
+	rm -rf "$inst"
+
+	generic_deps "osmo-build-dep.sh"
+}
+
+build() {
+
+	init_build
+
+	needed_artifact="$(artifact_name_by_remote_repos)"
+
+	if [ -f "$ARTIFACT_STORE/$job_name/$needed_artifact" ]; then
+		fetch_artifact "$ARTIFACT_STORE/$job_name" "$needed_artifact"
+	else
+		build_deps
+		archive_artifact
+	fi
+
+	set +x
+	echo
+	echo " ============================= $project =========================="
+	echo
+	set -x
+
+	build_project
+}
+
+# ARTIFACT FUNCTIONS
+artifact_name_by_local_repos() {
+	generic_deps "branch_and_rev_of_local_repo"
+	cd "$base"
+}
+
+artifact_name_by_remote_repos() {
+	generic_deps "branch_and_rev_of_remote_repo"
+}
+
+branch_and_rev_of_local_repo() {
+	cd "$deps/$1"
+	rev=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+	branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+	echo "$1.${branch//\//__}.${rev}"
+}
+
+branch_and_rev_of_remote_repo() {
+	if [ -z "${2+x}" ]; then branch="master"; else branch="$2"; fi
+	rev=$(git ls-remote "https://git.osmocom.org/$1" "refs/heads/$branch")
+	echo "$1.${branch//\//__}.${rev:0:7}"
+}
+
+archive_artifact() {
+	set +x
+	echo
+	echo "[INFO] Archiving artifact to artifactStore."
+	echo
+	set -x
+
+	cd "$base"
+	artifact="$(artifact_name_by_local_repos)"
+	# temp_job_store is necessary to atomically move it to production.
+	temp_job_store="$ARTIFACT_STORE/tmp/$job_name/"
+	job_store="$ARTIFACT_STORE/$job_name/"
+
+	if [ ! -f "$temp_job_store/$artifact" ]; then
+		mkdir -p "$job_store" "$temp_job_store"
+		# remove outdated artifact first to avoid temporarily
+		# doubling of artifact storage consumption
+		rm -f "$job_store/*"
+		tar czf "$temp_job_store/$artifact" "deps"
+		mv -n "$temp_job_store/$artifact" "$job_store/$artifact"
+		rm -rf "$temp_job_store"
+
+		log_artifact_hashes "$job_store/$artifact"
+	fi
+}
+
+fetch_artifact() {
+	set +x
+	echo
+	echo "[INFO] Fetching artifact from artifactStore."
+	echo
+	set -x
+
+	log_artifact_hashes "$1/$2"
+	cp "$1/$2" .
+	log_artifact_hashes "$2"
+	tar xzf "$2"
+
+	if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
+		set +x
+		echo
+		echo "[INFO] Artifact could not be fetched, triggering build_deps()"
+		set -x
+		build_deps()
+	fi
+}
+
+# checksum is not used by this script itself,
+# but might be handy in logs when debugging.
+log_artifact_hashes() {
+	set +x
+	echo
+	echo "[INFO] name: $1"
+	echo "[INFO] sha256: $(sha256sum "$1" | cut -d ' ' -f1)"
+	echo
+	set -x
+}