[julia-users] Re: I think I'm obtaining the nightly ubuntu PPA incorrectly...

[Jeff Waller]

this is a downside of having a project that spans 3 travis languages; (c++, 
node, julia)  -- currently the language is set to c++.  
Ironically, the c++ provided by language c++ is the wrong one on Linux (gcc 
4.6 is too old).  I think I copied that script back in
the day, but have since modified it to allow additional permutations. 
 Isn't though there an issue to seeing what a project backed
by a language julia instance does -- julia is pre-installed?

[julia-users] Re: I think I'm obtaining the nightly ubuntu PPA incorrectly...

[Tony Kelman]

No, julia isn't actually pre-installed in the VM image on travis. If you expand 
out the first few build steps from some package's log, you can see how it 
downloads and extracts a binary at the start of the build.

[julia-users] Re: I think I'm obtaining the nightly ubuntu PPA incorrectly...

[Jeff Waller]

On Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 8:12:11 AM UTC-5, Tony Kelman wrote:
>
> Don't think the problem is on your end. That's probably just how long it's 
> been since the ppa nightlies were updated successfully. Elliot has been too 
> busy to keep them updated regularly, and has asked elsewhere if anyone 
> would be willing to take over maintenance from him.
>
> I recommend using the generic linux nightlies instead of the 
> ubuntu-specific ppa.
>

I thought something like that might be the case.  But I think it's the arm 
build that's failing which is preventing things as the amd and x86 builds 
 
look successful.

I'll help out if I can though I might have even less time to do it.

In the meantime are there some cut-n-paste instructions for (linux generic 
possibly) travis somewhere?

[julia-users] Re: I think I'm obtaining the nightly ubuntu PPA incorrectly...

[Tony Kelman]

If you need to use something other than language: julia on travis, you can 
check the couple of steps that get run for that by looking at the log of some 
other repository that is using language: julia. For linux it's just a matter of 
downloading and extracting the right tarball. On osx there are a few more steps 
to mount the dmg image. I did write a script that would do these steps for you 
but haven't been maintaining it or checking that it still works since we got 
language: julia support incorporated on travis.