Re: [PATCH rdma-core] Add a .travis.yml file

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:10:09AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:53:37AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > > I don't understand how a compiler can be too new? The next round of
> > > rolling release distros are likely to use this compiler, and those are
> > > the distros that will first pick to up rdma-core.
> >
> > I have an issue in front of my eyes where kernel fails to build with old
> > gcc version, while new gcc version works.
>
> Heh, last week I had the opposite..
>
> > My experience shows the same, however I want to minimize the test burden
> > on the users.
>
> IMHO, it is more valuable to run a build on the full distro stack than
> to try and inject old compiler variations into travis. Old system
> libraries are just as likely to fail a build as the compiler.
>
> I don't have any way to do that automatically. IMHO Travis is not able to
> handle that sort of workload.
>
> Perhaps a pre-release pass through OBS or something like it is the answer here?

Yeah,
Let's start simple and sort it later on.

>
> Jason

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