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+image: debian:stretch
+
+stages:
+  - build
+
+before_script:
+  - echo 'path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*' > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99-exclude-cruft
+  - echo 'path-exclude=/usr/share/man/*' >> /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99-exclude-cruft
+  - echo '#!/bin/sh' > /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
+  - echo 'exit 101' >> /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
+  - chmod +x /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
+  - apt-get update
+  - apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install build-essential automake autoconf libtool pkg-config libexpat1-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libpixman-1-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libcolord-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libwayland-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libx11-xcb-dev libx11-dev libudev-dev libgbm-dev libxkbcommon-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libxcursor-dev libmtdev-dev libpam0g-dev libvpx-dev libsystemd-dev libinput-dev libwebp-dev libjpeg-dev libva-dev liblcms2-dev git
+  - mkdir -p /tmp/.X11-unix
+  - chmod 777 /tmp/.X11-unix
+
+build-native:
+  stage: build
+  script:
+  - git clone --depth=1 git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/wayland/wayland-protocols
+  - export WAYLAND_PROTOCOLS_DIR="$(pwd)/prefix-wayland-protocols"
+  - export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$WAYLAND_PROTOCOLS_DIR/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
+  - export MAKEFLAGS="-j4"
+  - cd wayland-protocols
+  - git show -s HEAD
+  - mkdir build
+  - cd build
+  - ../autogen.sh --prefix="$WAYLAND_PROTOCOLS_DIR"
+  - make install
+  - cd ../../
+  - export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="$(mktemp -p $(pwd) -d xdg-runtime-XXXXXX)"
+  - export BUILD_ID="weston-$CI_JOB_NAME_$CI_COMMIT_SHA-$CI_JOB_ID"
+  - export PREFIX="$(pwd)/prefix-$BUILD_ID"
+  - export BUILDDIR="$(pwd)/build-$BUILD_ID"
+  - mkdir "$BUILDDIR" "$PREFIX"
+  - cd "$BUILDDIR"
+  - ../autogen.sh --prefix="$PREFIX" --disable-setuid-install --enable-xwayland --enable-x11-compositor --enable-drm-compositor --enable-wayland-compositor --enable-headless-compositor --enable-fbdev-compositor --disable-rdp-compositor --enable-screen-sharing --enable-vaapi-recorder --enable-simple-clients --enable-simple-egl-clients --enable-simple-dmabuf-drm-client --enable-simple-dmabuf-v4l-client --enable-clients --enable-resize-optimization --enable-weston-launch --enable-fullscreen-shell --enable-colord --enable-dbus --enable-systemd-login --enable-junit-xml --enable-ivi-shell --enable-wcap-tools --disable-libunwind --enable-demo-clients-install --enable-lcms --with-cairo=image
+  - make all
+  - make check
+  - make install
+  - make distcheck
+  artifacts:
+    name: weston-$CI_COMMIT_SHA-$CI_JOB_ID
+    when: always
+    paths:
+    - build-*/weston-*.tar.xz
+    - build-*/*.log
+    - build-*/logs
+    - prefix-*