Hi, While I was in-between kernel builds last week I attempted to improve the Travis build a little. Alexander Graf pointed out we were missing a number of the linux-user targets. To avoid exploding the matrix too much I've grouped builds together where they hopefully benefit from sharing some objtect files. The biggest win however was using a tarball to pre-seed the sub-module checkouts. I'm not sure if this is because hammering our git server slows down or just because it's a lot of data but it was adding up to around half the execution time of the build.
Finally I removed "make check" from every build. It still gets run once in the matrix but this means the current instability will bite less often. I failed in the task of adding mingw builds because it's hard on the Travis Ubuntu hosts to install the headers/libs for a cross compile. If someone can come up with a nice solid script that hand pulls in these dependancies then we can add a call to that for the mingw builds. Any volenteers? If there are no objections/negative reviews I'll push these at the Trivial tree later this week. Or is it time we create a specific testing tree for these particular type of patches? Alex Bennée (4): .travis.yml: add more linux-user to the build matrix .travis.yml: make the make slightly more parallel .travis.yml: pre-seed sub-modules for speed .travis.yml: remove "make check" from main matrix .travis.yml | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1
