Re: Appveyor Settings for the 3.15 (and 7.0) branch builds

[Ralph Lange via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

That's exactly what I had tried and reported as not working a few weeks ago in one of our Core meetings, before I pointed them back to the gists.

Thanks for confirming this weird behaviour.

Michael was suggesting to try renaming the .appveyor.yml (maybe to .appveyor-3.15.yml) on the branch and set that name in the web UI. I didn't try that yet.

Their documentation says the setting either is a different file name (then read from within the repository through the GitHub API) or a URL.

Cheers,

~Ralph

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 01:33, Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

I thought I understood Appveyor's need for a pointer to get the .appveyor.yml file from when building our epics-base-3 and epics-base-7 projects. The other day I had a brainwave that the “Custom configuration .yml file name” setting could be pointed to the raw link for that file on the appropriate branch, thus avoiding the need to separately update a gist every time we want to change that file.

However that doesn’t seem to work, I can’t get the epics-base-3 branch to see the last change I committed to that file on the 3.15 branch:

commit 436ce4526be7d4ce24859c23dd0e71119ca70d50 (HEAD -> 3.15, origin/3.15)

Author: Andrew Johnson <anj at anl.gov>

Date:   Mon Dec 21 15:49:52 2020 -0600

    Appveyor: Update CMP from mingw => gcc

diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml

index 4e5811ee4..1bcba4648 100644

--- a/.appveyor.yml

+++ b/.appveyor.yml

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ environment:

   - CMP: vs2013

   - CMP: vs2012

   - CMP: vs2010

-  - CMP: mingw

+  - CMP: gcc

 

 # Platform: processor architecture

 platform:

I just pointed it back to my gist and that seems to be working. Any ideas why it will happily accept

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anjohnson/07cb6af6e9157b5eb5db44d9e288caeb/raw/77d5bb8b0ac4a182bde5338704ac21164116a3ab/.appveyor.yml-base-3.15

but not

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epics-base/epics-base/3.15/.appveyor.yml

?

- Andrew (frustrated by MS as usual)

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