[Vm-dev] Travis CI Update: Trusty as default Linux is coming

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 19:31:56 UTC 2017


Just to mention that compiling with clang might also be an option.
MacOS 32 & 64 + Win64 are already clang-based.

2017-07-12 19:14 GMT+02:00 Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>:

>
> Hi Alistair,
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:28 AM Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Fabio,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 06:16:58AM +0000, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
>> > FYI: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-07-11-trusty-as-default-
>> linux-is-coming
>> >
>> > We currently still use Precise to build OSVM on Linux.
>> > I hope migrating to Trusty won't cause any problems for us...
>> >
>> > Fabio
>>
>> I assume that the move to a newer OS will mean testing with a newer
>> version of gcc (4.6.3 seems to be the current default).
>>
>> The good news is that a few people have tested building the VM with gcc
>> 4.8.x (4.8.5 in my case).
>
>
>> However moving to Trusty also means that when Ubuntu 18.04 is released
>> in less than a year it will most likely be difficult for anyone
>> upgrading to get access to gcc 4.8.5, since 5.4 is the release used in
>> 16.04.
>>
>
> Why would anyone still need access to gcc 4.8.5? The binaries should work
> on 14.04+ and hopefully also on 12.04, right?
>
>
>>
>> Would it be possible to move straight to Xenial (16.04)?
>>
>
> Travis does not support Xenial yet, but they are working on it [1].
> Does the OSVM compile with gcc 5.4?
>
> Best,
> Fabio
>
> [1] https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5659#
> issuecomment-314564030
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alistair
>>
>>
>
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