Add CI for our Static Netdata builds (which kickstart-static64 uses) (#9130)

* Add tool to build the static x864_64 Netdata

* Add error if the netdata binary is not statically linked

* Add Github Workflow for testing static builds

* Don't use docker run -i -t if not on a tty

3 files changed, 139 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/.github/scripts/build-static-x86_64.sh b/.github/scripts/build-static-x86_64.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..2676b6321a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/build-static-x86_64.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Builds the netdata-vX.Y.Z-xxxx.gz.run (static x86_64) artifact.
+
+set -e
+
+# shellcheck source=.github/scripts/functions.sh
+. "$(dirname "$0")/functions.sh"
+
+NAME="${NAME:-netdata}"
+VERSION="${VERSION:-"$(git describe)"}"
+BASENAME="$NAME-$VERSION"
+
+prepare_build() {
+  progress "Preparing build"
+  (
+    test -d artifacts || mkdir -p artifacts
+  ) >&2
+}
+
+build_static_x86_64() {
+  progress "Building static x86_64"
+  (
+    USER="" ./packaging/makeself/build-x86_64-static.sh
+  ) >&2
+}
+
+prepare_assets() {
+  progress "Preparing assets"
+  (
+    cp packaging/version artifacts/latest-version.txt
+
+    cd artifacts || exit 1
+    ln -s "${BASENAME}.gz.run" netdata-latest.gz.run
+    sha256sum -b ./* > "sha256sums.txt"
+  ) >&2
+}
+
+steps="prepare_build build_static_x86_64"
+steps="$steps prepare_assets"
+
+_main() {
+  for step in $steps; do
+    if ! run "$step"; then
+      if [ -t 1 ]; then
+        debug
+      else
+        fail "Build failed"
+      fi
+    fi
+  done
+
+  echo "🎉 All Done!"
+}
+
+if [ -n "$0" ] && [ x"$0" != x"-bash" ]; then
+  _main "$@"
+fi
diff --git a/.github/scripts/functions.sh b/.github/scripts/functions.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7cd2e08094
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/functions.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This file is included by download.sh & build.sh
+
+set -e
+
+color() {
+  fg="$1"
+  bg="${2}"
+  ft="${3:-0}"
+
+  printf "\33[%s;%s;%s" "$ft" "$fg" "$bg"
+}
+
+color_reset() {
+  printf "\033[0m"
+}
+
+ok() {
+  if [ -t 1 ]; then
+    printf "%s[ OK ]%s\n" "$(color 37 42m 1)" "$(color_reset)"
+  else
+    printf "%s\n" "[ OK ]"
+  fi
+}
+
+err() {
+  if [ -t 1 ]; then
+    printf "%s[ ERR ]%s\n" "$(color 37 41m 1)" "$(color_reset)"
+  else
+    printf "%s\n" "[ ERR ]"
+  fi
+}
+
+run() {
+  retval=0
+  logfile="$(mktemp -t "run-XXXXXX")"
+  if "$@" 2> "$logfile"; then
+    ok
+  else
+    retval=$?
+    err
+    tail -n 100 "$logfile" || true
+  fi
+  rm -rf "$logfile"
+  return $retval
+}
+
+progress() {
+  printf "%-40s" "$(printf "%s ... " "$1")"
+}
+
+log() {
+  printf "%s\n" "$1"
+}
+
+error() {
+  log "ERROR: ${1}"
+}
+
+fail() {
+  log "FATAL: ${1}"
+  exit 1
+}
+
+debug() {
+  log "Dropping into a shell for debugging ..."
+  exec /bin/sh
+}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-install.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-install.yml
index afa61e9891..fe7a07bd7a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-install.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-install.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,18 @@ on:
       - master
   pull_request:
 jobs:
-  build:
+  static-build:
+    name: Build (x86_64)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Git clone repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - run: |
+          git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          .github/scripts/build-static-x86_64.sh
+  source-build:
     name: Build & Install
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false