Speeding up CI builds? (Re: ESC meeting minutes: 2020-01-23)

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 30/01/2020 13:01, Luboš Luňák wrote:
> On Thursday 30 of January 2020, Noel Grandin wrote:
>> On 2020/01/30 12:57 PM, Luboš Luňák wrote:
>>> cross-compiling (it should preferably be exactly the same Clang version
>>> as the one used on the Mac).
>>
>> Noting that Apple ships a modified version of Clang (ie. it's a branch not
>> a tag), so that might be a little trickier than expected.
> 
>   Yes, I know, that's why I explicitly mentioned that. But LLVM offers Clang
> download for Mac too, so possibly(?) this could be handled by downloading the
> same Clang version for both Mac and Linux.

Then again, CI builds would ideally use a baseline toolchain.