From 7fa0e52a982fefc3ea7931429f9a8a3dcc2c6ef4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikhail Glushenkov <mikhail.glushenkov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 20:24:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use a common sandbox for building Cabal and cabal-install on
 Travis.

---
 .travis.yml | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5f5f3f69ba..e36c9b9c45 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # NB: don't set `language: haskell` here
 
-# The following enables several GHC versions to be tested; often it's enough to test only against the last release in a major GHC version. Feel free to omit lines listings versions you don't need/want testing for.
+# The following enables several GHC versions to be tested; often it's enough to
+# test only against the last release in a major GHC version. Feel free to omit
+# lines listings versions you don't need/want testing for.
 env:
  - GHCVER=7.4.2
  - GHCVER=7.6.3
@@ -17,32 +19,37 @@ before_install:
 
 install:
  - cabal update
-# We intentionally do not install anything before trying to build Cabal because
-# it should build with each supported GHC version out-of-the-box.
+ # We intentionally do not install anything before trying to build Cabal because
+ # it should build with each supported GHC version out-of-the-box.
 
-# Here starts the actual work to be performed for the package under test; any command which exits with a non-zero exit code causes the build to fail.
-# Using ./dist/setup/setup here instead of cabal-install to avoid breakage
-# when the build config format changed
+# Here starts the actual work to be performed for the package under test; any
+# command which exits with a non-zero exit code causes the build to fail. Using
+# ./dist/setup/setup here instead of cabal-install to avoid breakage when the
+# build config format changed
 script:
+ - cabal sandbox init
  - cd Cabal
  - mkdir -p ./dist/setup
  - cp Setup.hs ./dist/setup/setup.hs
 # Should be able to build setup without extra dependencies
  - /opt/ghc/$GHCVER/bin/ghc --make -odir ./dist/setup -hidir ./dist/setup -i -i. ./dist/setup/setup.hs -o ./dist/setup/setup -Wall -Werror -threaded  # the command cabal-install would use to build setup
 
-# Need extra dependencies for test suite
+# Need extra dependencies for test suite. Installing them into the common
+# sandbox speeds up the build a little.
+ - cabal sandbox init --sandbox ../.cabal-sandbox
  - cabal install --only-dependencies --enable-tests
  - sudo /opt/ghc/$GHCVER/bin/ghc-pkg recache
  - /opt/ghc/$GHCVER/bin/ghc-pkg recache --user
 
- - ./dist/setup/setup configure --user --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks --ghc-option=-Werror -v2  # -v2 provides useful information for debugging
+ - ./dist/setup/setup configure --user --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks --ghc-option=-Werror -v2  --package-db=clear --package-db=global --package-db=../.cabal-sandbox/$(uname -i)-linux-ghc-$GHCVER-packages.conf.d # -v2 provides useful information for debugging
  - ./dist/setup/setup build   # this builds all libraries and executables (including tests/benchmarks)
  - ./dist/setup/setup haddock # see #2198
  - ./dist/setup/setup test --show-details=streaming
  - cabal check
  - cabal sdist   # tests that a source-distribution can be generated
 
-# The following scriptlet checks that the resulting source distribution can be built & installed
+# The following scriptlet checks that the resulting source distribution can be
+# built & installed.
  - function install_from_tarball {
    export SRC_TGZ=$(cabal info . | awk '{print $2 ".tar.gz";exit}') ;
    if [ -f "dist/$SRC_TGZ" ]; then
@@ -52,11 +59,12 @@ script:
       exit 1;
    fi
    }
+
  - install_from_tarball
 
 # Also build cabal-install.
  - cd ../cabal-install
- - cabal sandbox init
+ - cabal sandbox init --sandbox ../.cabal-sandbox
  - cabal sandbox add-source ../Cabal
  - cabal install --dependencies-only --enable-tests
  - cabal configure --enable-tests --ghc-option=-Werror
-- 
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