Strip the executables in order to reduce their size

Updated the python submodule.
The newer submodule will create smaller static python libraries.

.github/workflows/pr-pipeline.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: gdb-static-pr-pipeline
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        architecture: ["x86_64", "arm", "aarch64", "powerpc", "mips", "mipsel"]
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        submodules: recursive
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: sudo apt-get install -y wget
+
+    - name: Build
+      run: make build-${{ matrix.architecture }} -j$((`nproc`+1))

.github/workflows/release-pipeline.yaml

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-name: gdb-static-pipeline
+name: gdb-static-release-pipeline
 
 on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - '*'
   push:
     tags:
       - 'v*'
 
+# Use a non-parallel single job pipeline because artifacts weigh too much. Instead,
+# simply build the files in the same job they are released.
 jobs:
-  build:
+  build_and_publish:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        submodules: recursive
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: sudo apt-get install -y wget
@@ -24,14 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Pack
       run: make pack
 
-    - name: Upload artifact
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: gdb-static
-        path: build/artifacts/gdb-static*.tar.gz
-
     - name: Publish release
-      if: github.event_name == 'push'
       uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
       with:
-        files: build/artifacts/gdb-static*.tar.gz
+        files: build/artifacts/gdb-static*.tar.gz

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[submodule "cpython-static"]
+	path = src/submodule_packages/cpython-static
+	url = git@github.com:guyush1/cpython-static.git
+	branch = python3.12-static
+[submodule "binutils-gdb-static"]
+	path = src/submodule_packages/binutils-gdb
+	url = git@github.com:guyush1/binutils-gdb.git
+	branch = gdb-static

Makefile

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ARCHS := x86_64 arm aarch64 powerpc mips mipsel
 TARGETS := $(addprefix build-, $(ARCHS))
 PACK_TARGETS := $(addprefix pack-, $(ARCHS))
+SUBMODULE_PACKAGES := $(wildcard src/submodule_packages/*)
+BUILD_PACKAGES_DIR := "build/packages"
 
 .PHONY: clean help download_packages build build-docker-image $(TARGETS) $(PACK_TARGETS)
 
@@ -23,22 +25,28 @@ build/build-docker-image.stamp: Dockerfile
 
 build-docker-image: build/build-docker-image.stamp
 
-build/download-packages.stamp: build/build-docker-image.stamp src/download_packages.sh
-	mkdir -p build/packages
+build/download-packages.stamp: build/build-docker-image.stamp src/compilation/download_packages.sh
+	mkdir -p $(BUILD_PACKAGES_DIR)
 	docker run --user $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) \
 		--rm --volume .:/app/gdb gdb-static env TERM=xterm-256color \
-		/app/gdb/src/download_packages.sh /app/gdb/build/packages
+		/app/gdb/src/compilation/download_packages.sh /app/gdb/$(BUILD_PACKAGES_DIR)/
 	touch build/download-packages.stamp
 
+build/symlink-git-packages.stamp: $(SUBMODULE_PACKAGES)
+	mkdir -p $(BUILD_PACKAGES_DIR)
+	ln -sf $(addprefix /app/gdb/, $(SUBMODULE_PACKAGES)) $(BUILD_PACKAGES_DIR)/
+
+symlink-git-packages: build/symlink-git-packages.stamp
+
 download-packages: build/download-packages.stamp
 
 build: $(TARGETS)
 
-$(TARGETS): build-%: download-packages build-docker-image
+$(TARGETS): build-%: symlink-git-packages download-packages build-docker-image
 	mkdir -p build
 	docker run --user $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) \
 		--rm --volume .:/app/gdb gdb-static env TERM=xterm-256color \
-		/app/gdb/src/build.sh $* /app/gdb/build/ /app/gdb/src
+		/app/gdb/src/compilation/build.sh $* /app/gdb/build/ /app/gdb/src
 
 pack: $(PACK_TARGETS)
 
@@ -47,7 +55,10 @@ $(PACK_TARGETS): pack-%: build-%
 		tar -czf "build/artifacts/gdb-static-$*.tar.gz" -C "build/artifacts/$*" .; \
 	fi
 
-clean:
+clean-git-packages:
+	git submodule foreach '[[ ! "$$sm_path" == src/submodule_packages/* ]] || git clean -xffd'
+
+clean: clean-git-packages
 	rm -rf build
 # Kill and remove all containers of image gdb-static
 	docker ps -a | grep -P "^[a-f0-9]+\s+gdb-static\s+" | awk '{print $$1}' | xargs docker rm -f 2>/dev/null || true

src/compilation/build.sh

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 script_dir=$(dirname "$0")
 source "$script_dir/utils.sh"
 
+# Don't want random unknown things to fail in the build procecss!
+set -e
+
 function set_compliation_variables() {
     # Set compilation variables such as which compiler to use.
     #
@@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ function set_compliation_variables() {
         CROSS=mipsel-linux-gnu-
         export HOST=mipsel-linux-gnu
     elif [[ "$target_arch" == "x86_64" ]]; then
-        CROSS=""
+        CROSS=x86_64-linux-gnu-
         export HOST=x86_64-linux-gnu
     fi
 
@@ -49,6 +52,9 @@ function set_compliation_variables() {
 
     export CFLAGS="-O2"
     export CXXFLAGS="-O2"
+
+    # Strip the binary to reduce it's size.
+    export LDFLAGS="-s"
 }
 
 function set_ncurses_link_variables() {

src/compilation/download_packages.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Include utils library
 script_dir=$(dirname "$0")
-. "$script_dir/utils.sh"
+source "$script_dir/utils.sh"
 
 # List of package URLs to download
 SOURCE_URLS=(
@@ -201,14 +201,6 @@ function download_gdb_packages() {
         fi
     done
 
-    if [[ ! -d gdb-static ]]; then
-        git clone https://github.com/guyush1/binutils-gdb.git --single-branch --branch gdb-static
-    fi
-
-    if [[ ! -d python3.12-static ]]; then
-        git clone https://github.com/guyush1/cpython-static.git --single-branch --branch python3.12-static
-    fi
-
     fancy_title "Finished downloading GDB packages"
     popd
 }