On 14/07/2017 15:56, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 14/07/2017 12:05, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>
>>> Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> docker-travis is limited to the -j3 flag specified for running on the
>>>> SaaS Travis CI infrastructure.
>>>>
>>>> When running the test matrix locally with docker, however, we can run
>>>> much more jobs at the same time on a suitably beefy server.  Let people
>>>> do that with the usual J=nn option already supported by the other
>>>> docker-based tests.
>>>
>>> Eh, I was debugging stuff on our beefy server with J=20 and then I
>>> realised I was just running:
>>>
>>>   make docker-test-quick@travis J=20
>>>
>>> So I guess some people do use the pseudo Travis expansion then?
>>
>> How would that end up running tests/docker/travis?
> 
> It runs the normal build and make check but in the Travis build
> environment. Essentially the .travis.yml is just a bunch of alternative
> configure invocations, there is nothing to stop you manually setting up
> a build with TARGET_LIST and EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS which is what I do if
> there is a particular Travis test which is failing.

This is different, I want to run all Travis builds to ensure I don't
break one before going on vacation. :)

Paolo

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