Azure Pipeline: Work around macOS build failures - #988
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Johannes Schindelin (dscho) merged 3 commits intoSep 22, 2026
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It seems that the macOS job now times out because it has to rebuild Bottles for macOS/Intel that were previously pre-built. Let's extend the timeout so that the Pipeline no longer times out _after_ painfully building all dependencies (looking at you, `gettext`, which requires `cmake` to be built as well). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…taller When having to build dependencies, try to use the quicker parallel build. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Since we have to jump through hoops to build on macOS/Intel, still, some dependencies have to be rebuilt, which takes a painfully long time (the attempted Release runs for v2.55.0.vfs.0.9 required over 55 minutes _just_ in the step that installs the dependencies, causing the runs to time out). Let's try to remediate that _a little_ by avoiding to rebuild `gettext`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Nice temporary workaround!
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When trying to release v2.55.0.vfs.0.9, I ran into a pretty vexing problem: Due to Homebrew dropping support for Intel, and due to us trying to work around this so that we could provide at least one more Microsoft Git version with universal binaries, the Pipeline step to install dependencies no longer took half a dozen minutes but over 55 minutes, which caused the job to time out after the allocate one hour.
So I needed these changes to make a release for the v2.55.0.vfs.0.10 tag.