Winston on Travis

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I am trying to build documentation on Travis with Literate.jl which contains figures made with Winston.jl. Locally everything works great, but when I build stuff on Travis I get precompilation error:

value = Failed to precompile Winston [bd07be1c-e76f-5ff0-9c0b-f51ef45303c6] to /home/travis/.julia/compiled/v1.1/Winston/TPedU.ji.

Looking on Winston.jl repo I see that it is tested with Travis thus I expected that my figure generation would work on Travis.

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Are you on macOS? Travis/Cairo/macOS hasn’t worked for months…

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The Travis builds for documentation are on Linux. Uses docker image to run Ubuntu 18.06.

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Fixed the issue by looking into Winston recipe for Travis where xvfb-run is used. Thus my .travis.yml doc build:

jobs:
  include:
    - stage: "Documentation"
      julia: 1.1
      os: linux
      script:
        - if [[ -a .git/shallow ]]; then git fetch --unshallow; fi
        - if [[ `uname` = "Linux" ]]; then TESTCMD="xvfb-run julia"; else TESTCMD="julia"; fi
        - $TESTCMD --project=docs/ -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.develop(PackageSpec(path=pwd()));
                                               Pkg.instantiate(); Pkg.build("Cairo")'
        - $TESTCMD --project=docs/ docs/make.jl
      after_success: skip