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[PATCH v2 5/5] travis-ci: build with the right compiler

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2019, 01:29 UTC
Message-ID
<20190117012913.30562-6-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20190117012913.30562-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

Our 'Makefile' hardcodes the compiler to build Git as 'CC = cc'. This CC variable can be overridden from the command line, i.e. 'make CC=gcc-X.Y' will build with that particular GCC version, but not from the environment, i.e. 'CC=gcc-X.Y make' will still build with whatever 'cc' happens to be on the platform.

Our build jobs on Travis CI are badly affected by this. In the build matrix we have dedicated build jobs to build Git with GCC and Clang both on Linux and macOS from the very beginning (522354d70f (Add Travis CI support, 2015-11-27)). Alas, this never really worked as supposed to, because Travis CI specifies the compiler for those build jobs as 'export CC=gcc' and 'export CC=clang' (which works fine for projects built with './configure && make'). Consequently, our 'linux-clang' build job has always used GCC, because that's where 'cc' points at in Travis CI's Linux images, while the 'osx-gcc' build job has always used Clang. Furthermore, 37fa4b3c78 (travis-ci: run gcc-8 on linux-gcc jobs, 2018-05-19) added an 'export CC=gcc-8' in an attempt to build with a more modern compiler, but to no avail.

Set MAKEFLAGS with CC based on the $CC environment variable, so 'make' will run the "right" compiler. The Xcode 10.1 macOS image on Travis CI already contains the gcc@8 package from Homebrew, but we have to 'brew link' it first to be able to use it.

So with this patch our build jobs will build Git with the following compiler versions:

  linux-clang: clang version 5.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_500/final)
  linux-gcc:   gcc-8 (Ubuntu 8.1.0-5ubuntu1~14.04) 8.1.0
  osx-clang: Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)
  osx-gcc:   gcc-8 (Homebrew GCC 8.2.0) 8.2.0
  GETTEXT_POISON: gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---
 ci/install-dependencies.sh |  5 +++++
 ci/lib-travisci.sh         | 15 ++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.sh b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
index 06c3546e1e..dc719876bb 100755
--- a/ci/install-dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ osx-clang|osx-gcc)
 	brew install git-lfs gettext
 	brew link --force gettext
 	brew install caskroom/cask/perforce
+	case "$jobname" in
+	osx-gcc)
+		brew link gcc@8
+		;;
+	esac
 	;;
 StaticAnalysis)
 	sudo apt-get -q update
diff --git a/ci/lib-travisci.sh b/ci/lib-travisci.sh
index 69dff4d1ec..a479613a57 100755
--- a/ci/lib-travisci.sh
+++ b/ci/lib-travisci.sh
@@ -99,12 +99,14 @@ export DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove
 export GIT_PROVE_OPTS="--timer --jobs 3 --state=failed,slow,save"
 export GIT_TEST_OPTS="--verbose-log -x --immediate"
 export GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=YesPlease
-if [ "$jobname" = linux-gcc ]; then
-	export CC=gcc-8
-fi
 
 case "$jobname" in
 linux-clang|linux-gcc)
+	if [ "$jobname" = linux-gcc ]
+	then
+		export CC=gcc-8
+	fi
+
 	export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=YesPlease
 
 	# The Linux build installs the defined dependency versions below.
@@ -118,6 +120,11 @@ linux-clang|linux-gcc)
 	export PATH="$GIT_LFS_PATH:$P4_PATH:$PATH"
 	;;
 osx-clang|osx-gcc)
+	if [ "$jobname" = osx-gcc ]
+	then
+		export CC=gcc-8
+	fi
+
 	# t9810 occasionally fails on Travis CI OS X
 	# t9816 occasionally fails with "TAP out of sequence errors" on
 	# Travis CI OS X
@@ -127,3 +134,5 @@ GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON)
 	export GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease
 	;;
 esac
+
+export MAKEFLAGS="CC=${CC:-cc}"
-- 
2.20.1.499.gf60de1223c
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  1. SZEDER GáborOct 16, 2018
  2. Jonathan NiederOct 16, 2018
  3. SZEDER GáborOct 16, 2018
  4. Jonathan NiederOct 16, 2018
  5. SZEDER GáborOct 17, 2018
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 18, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 18, 2018
  8. 0/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  9. 1/5 compat/obstack: fix -Wcast-function-type warningsSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 20, 2018
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 10, 2019
  12. SZEDER GáborJan 11, 2019
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2019
  14. SZEDER GáborJan 11, 2019
  15. SZEDER GáborJan 15, 2019
  16. Jonathan NiederJan 16, 2019
  17. SZEDER GáborJan 17, 2019
  18. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2019
  19. 2/5 .gitignore: ignore external debug symbols from GCC on macOSSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  20. 3/5 travis-ci: don't be '--quiet' when running the testsSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  21. 5/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  22. Johannes SchindelinJan 3, 2019
  23. 4/5 travis-ci: switch to Xcode 10.1 macOS imageSZEDER Gábor, Dec 20, 2018
  24. 0/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  25. 1/5 compat/obstack: fix -Wcast-function-type warningsSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  26. 2/5 .gitignore: ignore external debug symbols from GCC on macOSSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  27. 3/5 travis-ci: don't be '--quiet' when running the testsSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  28. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2019
  29. 4/5 travis-ci: switch to Xcode 10.1 macOS imageSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  30. 5/5 travis-ci: build with the right compilerSZEDER Gábor, Jan 17, 2019
  31. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2019
  32. SZEDER GáborJan 17, 2019
  33. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2019

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