Re: [PATCH for 4.2?] .travis.yml: drop xcode9.4 from build matrix

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 13:52, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 27/11/2019 14.24, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > It's broken so it's no longer helping. The latest Xcode is covered by
> > Cirrus.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  .travis.yml | 8 +-------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> > index c09b6a00143..445b0646c18 100644
> > --- a/.travis.yml
> > +++ b/.travis.yml
> > @@ -237,13 +237,7 @@ matrix:
> >          - TEST_CMD=""
> >
> >
> > -    # MacOSX builds
> > -    - env:
> > -        - CONFIG="--target-list=${MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS}"
> > -      os: osx
> > -      osx_image: xcode9.4
> > -      compiler: clang
> > -
> > +    # MacOSX builds - cirrus.yml also tests some MacOS builds including latest Xcode
>
> Ack for removing xcode9.4, it's also constantly failing for me, which is
> quite annoying.
>
> Additionally, the xcode9.4 runs on macOS 10.13, which we do not
> officially support anymore in QEMU (we only support the latest two
> releases).
>
> But maybe instead of removing the entry completely, you could replace it
> with "xcode11.2" instead if that works? See:

For purposes of 4.2 I've applied this patch-as is (since we're
going to get an rc4 anyway, and this is a simple change which
will stop travis complaining about the 4.2 stable branch in
future). We can look at xcode11.2 for 5.0.

thanks
-- PMM