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+language: cpp
+git:
+  submodules: false
+before_install:
+  - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y
+  - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:vslavik/poedit
+  - sudo apt-get update -qq
+  - sudo apt-get install -qq g++-4.8
+  - sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8
+install:
+  - sudo apt-get install -y -qq libasound2-dev libfftw3-dev libhunspell-dev yasm libfribidi-dev libass-dev libffms2-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libicu-dev luarocks
+  - sudo luarocks install busted > /dev/null
+
+  - git submodule --quiet init
+  - git submodule --quiet update vendor/boost vendor/googletest
+
+  - cd vendor/boost
+  - git submodule --quiet update --init --recursive
+  - ./bootstrap.sh
+  - ./b2 headers > /dev/null
+  - ./b2 -layout=system threading=multi cxxflags=-std=c++11 link=shared variant=release --without-python --without-iostreams --without-serialization --without-graph --without-log --without-math --without-signals --without-test --without-wave --without-mpi --without-program_options --without-graph_parallel --without-context --without-coroutine --without-random --without-timer --without-date_time
+  - cd ../..
+script:
+  - export CPATH=$(pwd)/vendor/boost
+  - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/vendor/boost/stage/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+  - autoreconf -if
+  - ./configure BOOST_LDFLAGS="-L$(pwd)/vendor/boost/stage/lib" || cat config.log
+  - make -j3 all test
+notifications:
+  email:
+    - on_success: change
+    - on_failure: change
+