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

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

OK I can drop the patch. It seems the long builds are just a random
pause that occasionally happens on their MacOS host.

>
> thanks
> -- PMM


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Alex Bennée