Re: [PATCH] .travis.yml: Add description to each job

[Thomas Huth]

On 28/01/2020 13.55, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 25/01/2020 19.31, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> The NAME variable can be used to describe nicely a job (see [*]).
>>> As we currently have 32 jobs, use it. This helps for quickly
>>> finding a particular job.
>>>
>>>   before: https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu/builds/639887646
>>>   after: https://travis-ci.org/philmd/qemu/builds/641795043
>>
>> Very good idea, correlating a job in the GUI to an entry in the yml file
>> was really a pain, so far.
>>
>>> [*] 
>>> https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build/#naming-jobs-within-matrices
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  .travis.yml | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>>>  1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>>> index 6c1038a0f1..d68e35a2c5 100644
>>> --- a/.travis.yml
>>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>>> @@ -94,24 +94,28 @@ after_script:
>>>  
>>>  matrix:
>>>    include:
>>> -    - env:
>>> +    - name: "[x86] GCC static (user)"
>>
>> Could you please drop the [x86] and other architectures from the names?
>> Travis already lists the build architecture in the job status page, so
>> this information is redundant.
> 
> Hmm for me the Travis page mis-renders the architecture (on firefox) so
> I do find the arch in the text fairly handy.

That's really weird, I'm also using Firefox and it looks fine here!

>>>      # Alternate coroutines implementations are only really of interest to 
>>> KVM users
>>>      # However we can't test against KVM on Travis so we can only run unit 
>>> tests
>>> -    - env:
>>> +    - name: "[x86] check-unit coroutine=ucontext"
>>> +      env:
>>>          - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=ucontext --disable-tcg"
>>>          - TEST_CMD="make check-unit -j3 V=1"
>>>  
>>>  
>>> -    - env:
>>> +    - name: "[x86] check-unit coroutine=sigaltstack"
>>> +      env:
>>>          - CONFIG="--with-coroutine=sigaltstack --disable-tcg"
>>>          - TEST_CMD="make check-unit -j3 V=1"
>>>
>>
>> Off-topic to your patch, but aren't coroutines something that is only
>> used in the softmmu targets? If so, we could add --disable-user to the
>> above two builds to speed things up a little bit.
> 
> I think --disable-tcg implies --disable-user as you can't run without
> it.

D'oh, of course you're right, --disable-tcg limits the targets to
*86-softmmu!

 Thomas