[ARROW-4030] [CI] Use travis_terminate to halt builds when a step fails

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Continuous Integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20631
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 14/Dec/18 18:01
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:31
• Resolved: 19/Dec/18 16:54

Description

I noticed that Travis CI will soldier onward if a step in its script: block fails. This wastes build time when there is an error somewhere early on in the testing process

For example, in the main C++ build, if travis_script_cpp.sh fails, then the subsequent steps will continue.

It seems the way to deal with this is to add || travis_terminate 1 to lines that can fail

see

https://medium.com/@manjula.cse/how-to-stop-the-execution-of-travis-pipeline-if-script-exits-with-an-error-f0e5a43206bf

I also found this discussion

https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1066

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3226