solana-ibc: add Anchor tests to CI

[mina86]

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[dhruvja]

Fixed the CI, though it takes a long time to install anchor.

[mina86]

Thanks. Due to the time let’s keep this as draft for now. Once 0.29 is released we can try using Docker image instead which cuts all the Solana and Anchor installation and build time.

[dhruvja]

Any idea on how long it takes?

[mina86]

OK, so timing wise, when those three steps are run one after the
other:

• anchor build takes 5′11″,
• anchor build -- --features mocks takes 1′22″ and
• anchor test --skip build takes 2′56″.

Altogether nine and a half minutes. That’s IMO long for CI but not
outrageously so. One way to improve this is by dropping the first
anchor build step. We’re building the codebase with and without
mocks feature in other steps so that should be mostly covered.

Interestingly, using Docker container is actually slower. Setting up
the container takes about a minute while with out caching setup,
setting up the environment takes just several seconds. Granted, when
Rust version changes the environment needs to be rebuilt (taking about
15 minutes) but that won’t happen too often.

[dhruvja]

So since we are already running build, the additional test is 3 minutes which is quite good compared to outrageously long process of above 20 minutes ( anchor test ) it used to take before.