Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] A number of Travis CI tweaks

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

On 15.09.14 18:48, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 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?

I like it :). Except for the small nit on 3/4.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>


Alex