Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.9.1

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> On 13 Jul 2016, at 22:43, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> It is somewhat disturbing that nobody seems to be regularly building
>>> on 32-bit platforms these days, which is the only reason I can think
>>> of why this was never reported until it hit a maintenance track.
>>> This should have been caught last week at f6a729f3 (Merge branch
>>> 'jk/tzoffset-fix', 2016-07-06) when the topic hit 'master' at the
>>> latest, and more preferrably it should have already been caught last
>>> month at 08ec8c5e (Merge branch 'jk/tzoffset-fix' into next,
>>> 2016-06-28).
>>>
>>> Those who care about 32-bit builds need to start building and
>>> testing 'next' and 'master' regularly, or similar breakages are
>>> bound to continue happening X-<.
>>>
>>> Volunteers?
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>> We might eventually see a volunteer or two but that hasn't happened
>> yet, at least in the past few days.
>>
>> Does Travis CI testing have an option to run our tests on some
>> 32-bit platforms?
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> TravisCI does not support 32-bit platforms natively:
> https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/986#issuecomment-124141683
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> However, there seems to be a way to enter a 32 bit Trusty chroot on
> 64 bit Travis via Docker:
> https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5770
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> @Duy:
> You mentioned that you compiled Git on Docker before ($gmane/297963).
> What do you think the chroot approach? Could that work? Would that
> be reliable?