A significant portion of the build time is spent initialising all the sub-modules we use in the source tree. Often this is almost as long as the build itself. By pre-seeding the .git/modules tree this will hopefully improve things.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> --- v2 - use wget -O - | tar as suggested by agraf diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml index f113339..b9025be 100644 --- a/.travis.yml +++ b/.travis.yml @@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ env: - TARGETS=unicore32-softmmu,unicore32-linux-user # Group remaining softmmu only targets into one build - TARGETS=lm32-softmmu,moxie-softmmu,tricore-softmmu,xtensa-softmmu,xtensaeb-softmmu +git: + # we want to do this ourselves + submodules: false before_install: + - wget -O - http://people.linaro.org/~alex.bennee/qemu-submodule-git-seed.tar.xz | tar -xvJ - git submodule update --init --recursive - sudo apt-get update -qq - sudo apt-get install -qq ${CORE_PKGS} ${NET_PKGS} ${GUI_PKGS} ${EXTRA_PKGS} -- 2.1.0