tools: add an option to generate lighter archives

Author: aduh95

.github/workflows/test-shared.yml

@@ -57,7 +57,35 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 jobs:
+  build-tarball:
+    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8  # v5.0.0
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Make tarball
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        run: |
+          export DATESTRING=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
+          export COMMIT=$(git rev-parse --short=10 "$GITHUB_SHA")
+          ./configure && make tar -j8 SKIP_XZ=1 SKIP_SHARED_DEPS=1
+        env:
+          DISTTYPE: nightly
+
+
+      - name: Upload tarball artifact
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02  # v4.6.2
+        with:
+          name: tarballs
+          path: '*.tar.gz'
+          compression-level: 0
+
   build:
+    needs: build-tarball
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -73,10 +101,17 @@ jobs:
     name: '${{ matrix.system }}: with shared libraries'
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@634f93cb2916e3fdff6788551b99b062d0335ce0  # v5.0.0
         if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
         with:
-          persist-credentials: false
+          name: tarballs
+          path: tarballs
+
+      - name: Extract tarball
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        run: |
+          tar xzf tarballs/*.tar.gz -C "$RUNNER_TEMP"
+          echo "TAR_DIR=$RUNNER_TEMP/$(basename tarballs/*.tar.gz .tar.gz)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
       - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
         if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
@@ -116,23 +151,22 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Patch npm gyp (to be able to build addons for the tests)
         if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
-        run: curl -L https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/8531.diff | git apply --directory=deps/npm --exclude=deps/npm/package-lock.json
+        run: curl -L https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/8531.diff | git apply --directory="$TAR_DIR/deps/npm" --exclude="$TAR_DIR/deps/npm/package-lock.json"
 
       - name: Load shell.nix
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
         run: curl -fsLSO https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/raw/${GITHUB_SHA}/shell.nix
 
       - name: Build Node.js ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && 'on the base commit' || 'and run tests' }}
         run: |
           nix-shell \
-            --pure --keep FLAKY_TESTS \
+            --pure --keep TAR_DIR --keep FLAKY_TESTS \
             --keep SCCACHE_GHA_VERSION --keep ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2 --keep ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL --keep ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN \
             --arg loadJSBuiltinsDynamically false \
             --arg ccache '(import <nixpkgs> {}).sccache' \
             --arg devTools '[]' \
             --arg benchmarkTools '[]' \
             --run '
-                make ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && 'build' || 'run' }}-ci -j4 V=1 TEST_CI_ARGS="-p actions --measure-flakiness 9 --skip-tests=$CI_SKIP_TESTS"
+                make ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && 'build' || '-C "$TAR_DIR" run' }}-ci -j4 V=1 TEST_CI_ARGS="-p actions --measure-flakiness 9 --skip-tests=$CI_SKIP_TESTS"
             '
 
       - name: Re-build Node.js on the merge commit

Makefile

@@ -1044,6 +1044,8 @@ BINARYTAR=$(BINARYNAME).tar
 HAS_XZ ?= $(shell command -v xz > /dev/null 2>&1; [ $$? -eq 0 ] && echo 1 || echo 0)
 # Supply SKIP_XZ=1 to explicitly skip .tar.xz creation
 SKIP_XZ ?= 0
+# Supply SKIP_XZ=1 to explicitly skip all dependencies that can be included as shared deps
+SKIP_SHARED_DEPS ?= 0
 XZ = $(shell [ $(HAS_XZ) -eq 1 ] && [ $(SKIP_XZ) -eq 0 ] && echo 1 || echo 0)
 XZ_COMPRESSION ?= 9e
 PKG=$(TARNAME).pkg
@@ -1213,12 +1215,30 @@ $(TARBALL): release-only doc-only
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/.editorconfig
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/.git*
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/.mailmap
+ifeq ($(SKIP_SHARED_DEPS), 1)
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/ada
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/brotli
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/cares
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/icu-small
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/icu-tmp
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/llhttp
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/nghttp2
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/ngtcp2
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/simdjson
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/sqlite
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uvwasi
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/zlib
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/zstd
+else
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl/openssl/demos
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl/openssl/doc
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl/openssl/test
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv/docs
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv/samples
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv/test
+endif
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/v8/samples
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/v8/tools/profviz
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/v8/tools/run-tests.py