Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] .travis.yml: pre-seed sub-modules for speed

[Brian Jackson]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:13:55 AM Alex Bennée wrote:
> A significant portion of the build time is spent initialising all the
> sub-modules we use in the source tree. Often this is almost as long as
> the build itself. By pre-seeding the .git/modules tree this will
> hopefully improve things.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Brian Jackson <address@hidden>

> 
> ---
> v2
>   - use wget -O - | tar as suggested by agraf
> 
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index f113339..b9025be 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ env:
>      - TARGETS=unicore32-softmmu,unicore32-linux-user
>      # Group remaining softmmu only targets into one build
>      -
> TARGETS=lm32-softmmu,moxie-softmmu,tricore-softmmu,xtensa-softmmu,xtensaeb-
> softmmu +git:
> +  # we want to do this ourselves
> +  submodules: false
>  before_install:
> +  - wget -O -
> http://people.linaro.org/~alex.bennee/qemu-submodule-git-seed.tar.xz | tar
> -xvJ - git submodule update --init --recursive
>    - sudo apt-get update -qq
>    - sudo apt-get install -qq ${CORE_PKGS} ${NET_PKGS} ${GUI_PKGS}
> ${EXTRA_PKGS}