added allow failures since some python3 tests currently will fail, and we want to retain python2 coverage in the coverage stage. Also added some comments.

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9103334ed..3192eed0d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,23 +1,45 @@
 dist: trusty
 language: python
 install:
-  - sudo apt-get -y install clang gdc docbook-xml xsltproc libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-pip python-dev fop docbook-xsl-doc-pdf texlive-full biber texmaker build-essential libpcre3-dev autoconf automake libtool bison subversion git
+# dependencies for clang tests
+  - sudo apt-get -y install clang 
+# dependencies for gdc tests
+  - sudo apt-get -y install gdc 
+# dependencies for docbook tests
+  - sudo apt-get -y install docbook-xml xsltproc libxml2-dev libxslt-dev fop docbook-xsl-doc-pdf
+# dependencies for latex tests
+  - sudo apt-get -y install texlive-full biber texmaker 
+# need some things for building dependencies for other tests
+  - sudo apt-get -y install python-pip python-dev build-essential libpcre3-dev autoconf automake libtool bison subversion git
+# dependencies for docbook tests continued
   - sudo pip install lxml
+# dependencies for D tests
   - sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d-apt.list
   - wget -qO - https://dlang.org/d-keyring.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   - sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y --allow-unauthenticated install dmd-bin 
+# dependencies for ldc tests
   - wget https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/download/v1.4.0/ldc2-1.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
   - tar xf ldc2-1.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
   - sudo cp -rf ldc2-1.4.0-linux-x86_64/* /
+# dependencies for swig tests
   - wget https://github.com/swig/swig/archive/rel-3.0.12.tar.gz
   - tar xzf rel-3.0.12.tar.gz
   - cd swig-rel-3.0.12 && ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install && cd ..
 
+# python 3 is not fulling passing at this time
+# so allow failure so the coverage stage can be reached with python 2
+matrix:
+  allow_failures:
+    - python: 3.5
+    - python: 3.6
+
 jobs:
   include:
     - &test_job
       stage: Test
       script: 
+      # WORKAROUND: attempt to retry JobTests.py if it fails and then continue if it passes, if it fails ten times
+      # then it is a real failure not related to intermittent travis failures
         - n=0; while [[ $n -lt 10 ]]; do python runtest.py src/engine/SCons/JobTests.py && break; n=$((n+1)); done; if [ "$n" -gt "9" ]; then false; fi
         - echo "src/engine/SCons/JobTests.py" > exclude_jobtest
         - python runtest.py -a --exclude-list exclude_jobtest || if [[ $? == 2 ]]; then true; else false; fi
@@ -46,9 +68,11 @@ jobs:
         - echo "[run]" >> .coveragerc
         - echo "source = $PWD/src" >> .coveragerc
         - echo "parallel = True" >> .coveragerc
-      # WORKAROUND: attempt to retry JobTests.py if it fails and then continue if it passes, if it fails ten times
-      # then it is a real failure not related to intermittent travis failures
-        - n=0; while [[ $n -lt 10 ]]; do coverage run --rcfile=$PWD/.coveragerc runtest.py src/engine/SCons/JobTests.py && break; n=$((n+1)); done; if [ "$n" -gt "9" ]; then false; fi
+      # Not including this workaround in the coverage report, because it will result
+      # in constantly changing coverage reports depending on the number of times
+      # the JobTests.py had to run to pass
+      # TODO: figure out how to cover JobTests.py
+      # - n=0; while [[ $n -lt 10 ]]; do coverage run --rcfile=$PWD/.coveragerc runtest.py src/engine/SCons/JobTests.py && break; n=$((n+1)); done; if [ "$n" -gt "9" ]; then false; fi
       # exclude JobTest.py becuase we already ran that
         - echo "src/engine/SCons/JobTests.py" > exclude_jobtest
       # also exclude this test since it overides the exit function which doesnt work with coverage