Re: Travis CI setup

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 25 July 2015 at 13:34, Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've made a Travis CI build at:
> https://github.com/cirosantilli/binutils-gdb/tree/gdb/travis
>
> It runs in an Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 machine.
>
> It finishes in 20 minutes with 30 errors:
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/72605568/log.txt ,
> less than the 46 on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine, and the same Buildbot
> commit result.
>
> With parallel tests make -j$(ncpus) it runs in 4 minutes, but the
> error rate goes up.
>
> Best of all: free testing infrastructure, that can be used by anyone
> to test commits on branches before they are merged.
>
> Let me know if the build steps on the .travis.yml can be improved
> somehow to reduce false errors.

Hi Ciro,

You could install the systemtap-sdt-dev package, that would allow
running the tests that currently exit early with:

  fatal error: sys/sdt.h: No such file or directory

They probably show as untested or unsupported right now, so it won't
reduce the number of failures, just raise the number of passes.

Simon