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Travis build failed due to 4MB log limit >.<

Is there a way to fix this? I would like to keep all the log output because it helps the user know the long compile is indeed working...

Just for reference this is the "error" that is killing the build:

The log length has exceeded the limit of 4 MB (this usually means that the test suite is raising the same exception over and over).

The job has been terminated

yes, just keep the log as it is. Travis is only used here for pull requests.

Could a macOS person test this please? I don't have access to osx atm

Edit: mac isn't having this whole ar thing. I'll mark it as a linux only package

macOS support removed because toolchain is available for OSX at http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/roborio/toolchains/

ar and tar were a bit of a pain here.

I think it is ready to be merged

@Mic92 It won't pass Travis due to log size but it is ready to be merged.

I rebased the patches here: https://github.com/Mic92/nixpkgs/commits/frc
If everything is still working for you, I would push this to master.

So this is a pretty big build. I'm wondering if we can replace it with the new GCC cross compilation stuff? I definitely don't want to break anything if people are using this but our build farm can only build so much. These can take quite a while especially on Aarch64:

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/58556003

/cc @Ericson2314

Yeah, this cross compiliation infra should allow this to be removed.

Is there a way we can do a compatibility alias for this? Not sure what the "equivalent" would be for arm-frc-linux-gnueabi-gcc.

@matthewbauer Yes, we can do it like pkgsi686Linux and xbursttools. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L20-L28 and the use of nixpkgsFun to recur. Also see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L5640-L5665 for xbursttools and cross in particular. I was hoping to get rid of nixpkgsFun eventually, but I suppose the compat alias will only be temporary.

Just reverted. Don't have time to test the alias. If this breaks anyone's workflow, we can definitely add it though.

It's like exactly a year so maybe that competition is about to begin again anew! haha. As penance for laughing at breaking an interface, I offer this: Ping me, o robotics wizzard whoever you may be, if you need an alias, and I will make one.

Lol- I think FIRST starts in January though

Yeah, I made this as a post-season project last year but I'm not especially interested in supporting it after I have stopped doing FIRST. It's probably best to leave it reverted and if someone new wants to add it they know where to start from.