I am using travis-ci and biicode to build my project who is depending on boost log. But boost log times are longer than 10 min so I get this message:
No output has been received in the last 10 minutes, this potentially indicates a
stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.
The build has been terminated
The build is working correctly, it's just that boost log is really long to compile with limited resources (I tried to compile it on a VM with 1 CPU and 2GB of RAM and it took almost more than 15 min)
I know this is happening because there is not enough verbose going on so I tried the following flags:
Actually travis_wait seems to be the correct solution but when I put it in my .travis.yml like this
script: travis_wait bii cpp:build
It does actually doesn't output logs like usually and just time out after 20 min. I don't think the actual building is taking place
What is the correct way to handle this problem?
This is a known issue, Boost.Log takes a long time to compile.
You can use travis_wait to call bii cpp:configure, but I'm with you, I need log feedback (No pun intended). However, I have tried that too and leaded to >50min build, which means travis aborts build on free accounts :( Of course my repo does not build Boost.Log only.
Just as a note, here's part of the settings.py file from the boost-biicode repo:
#Boost.Log takes so much time to compile, leads to timeouts on Travis CI
#It was tested on Windows and linux, works 'ok' (Be careful with linking settings)
if args.ci: del packages['examples/boost-log']
I'm currently working on a solution, launching asynchronous builds while printing progress. Check this issue. It will be ready for this week :)
To speed-up your build, try to play with BII_BOOST_BUILD_J variable to set the number of threads you want for building Boost components. Here's an example:
script:
- bii cpp:configure -DBII_BOOST_BUILD_J=4
Be careful, more threads means more RAM needed to compile at a time. Be sure you don't make the travis job VM go out of memory.