Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.9.1

[Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>]

On 13 Jul 2016, at 22:43, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 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?

TravisCI does not support 32-bit platforms natively:
https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/986#issuecomment-124141683

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

@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?

@Sid:
Does GitLab CI support 32-bit platforms?

Thanks,
Lars