Re: CI: clang installation broken in current Travis build images

From: James E. King III (jking_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-06-17 01:11:50

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 12:26 PM Peter Dimov via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> John Maddock wrote:
>
> > Currently, pretty much all attempts at installing clang on the travis
> > build images is failing:
> > https://travis-ci.org/boostorg/config/builds/546084433?utm_source=github_status&utm_medium=notification.
>
> This seems to be caused by the fact that the default image on Travis is now
> Xenial instead of Trusty. You can revert to using Trusty with `dist:
> trusty`, or the other option might be to switch to llvm-toolchain-xenial-5.0
> instead of llvm-toolchain-trusty-5.0.
>
>

boost-ci works with xenial, and forces travis where needed for ABI
compatibility with older compilers.
It shows examples for clang 3.8 through 7:

https://github.com/boostorg/boost-ci/blob/master/templates/.travis.yml

- Jim