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build: speed up source tarball creation

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/richardlau/tarball into master

Avoid building the node binary when building the source tarball. We need a node binary to build the docs, but it doesn't have to be one we build from scratch and can reuse any available node binary.

Skip building the xz compressed tarball in the build-tarball workflow as we only use the gzip compressed tarball in the subsequent build jobs.

This significantly cuts the time for the "build-tarball" job from the "Build from tarball" workflow from ~50mins to ~2mins.

Our release CI shouldn't be affected as the job the builds the source tarball builds the binary tarball first so will always have a built node binary to run.

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Here's a test build on the release CI: https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/6206/ Download: https://nodejs.org/download/test/v15.0.0-test20200724221167a148/

cc @nodejs/build-files

Checklist
  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
  • tests and/or benchmarks are included
  • commit message follows commit guidelines

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