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

[Fabio Niephaus]

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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