Re: [PATCH v1 07/19] cirrus.yml: reduce scope of MacOS build

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 20:20, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The MacOS build can time out on Cirrus running to almost an hour.
> Reduce the scope to the historical MacOS architectures much the same
> way we do on Travis.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
> ---
>  .cirrus.yml | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
> index 8326a3a4b16..4b042c0e12c 100644
> --- a/.cirrus.yml
> +++ b/.cirrus.yml
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  env:
>    CIRRUS_CLONE_DEPTH: 1
> +  MACOS_ARCHES: 
> i386-softmmu,ppc-softmmu,ppc64-softmmu,m68k-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu

I don't know whether Cirrus is our long-term plan for doing
CI of OSX (maybe we'll be using Gitlab and some runner on an
OSX platform??), but as a general point: since OSX is one of
the non-Linux hosts it's therefore worth making sure our
compile-coverage is as wide as possible, not narrow. It's
safe(r) to have narrow coverage of x86-Linux because people
catch issues with that anyway, but it's exactly the less
common platforms like OSX, the BSDs, odd architectures that
we want to be compile/make-check testing as much of our code
as possible.

thanks
-- PMM