add shitty check for running in travis with workarounds because god is dead and travis-ci fucking sucks.

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ option(TRACY_ROOT "include tracy profiler source" OFF)
 option(WITH_TESTS "build unit tests" ON)
 option(WITH_HIVE "build simulation stubs" OFF)
 option(BUILD_PACKAGE "builds extra components for making an installer (with 'make package')" OFF)
+option(TRAVIS_CI_SUCKS "are we building inside travis-ci?" OFF)
 
 if(WITH_HIVE)
   set(WITH_SHARED ON)
@@ -285,7 +286,12 @@ endif()
 # down loads a broken PythonInterp that loads Python2, but Python2 headers are not C++17 compatible.
 # So load this here universally so that pybind's more intelligent python finder finds python3.x
 # (which the crappier loader invoked below then respects).
-add_subdirectory(external/pybind11 EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+# however! travis is FUBAR right now so disable it in travis builds
+if(TRAVIS_CI_SUCKS)
+  message(WARNING "travis-ci python is broken garbage we have disabled pybind11, THANKS!")
+else()
+  add_subdirectory(external/pybind11 EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+endif()
 
 if(WITH_TESTS)
   add_subdirectory(external/googletest EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)

Makefile

@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ XSAN ?= False
 HIVE ?= OFF
 # compile unittests
 TESTS ?= ON
-
+# building in ci?
+TRAVIS_SUCKS ?= OFF
 
 # cmake generator type
 CMAKE_GEN ?= Unix Makefiles
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ SCAN_BUILD ?= scan-build
 
 UNAME = $(shell which uname)
 
-COMMON_CMAKE_OPTIONS = -DSTATIC_LINK_RUNTIME=$(STATIC_LINK) -DUSE_NETNS=$(NETNS) -DUSE_AVX2=$(AVX2) -DWITH_SHARED=$(SHARED_LIB) -DDOWNLOAD_SODIUM=$(DOWNLOAD_SODIUM) -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON -DXSAN=$(XSAN) -DWITH_HIVE=$(HIVE) -DWITH_TESTS=$(TESTS)
+COMMON_CMAKE_OPTIONS = -DSTATIC_LINK_RUNTIME=$(STATIC_LINK) -DUSE_NETNS=$(NETNS) -DUSE_AVX2=$(AVX2) -DWITH_SHARED=$(SHARED_LIB) -DDOWNLOAD_SODIUM=$(DOWNLOAD_SODIUM) -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON -DXSAN=$(XSAN) -DWITH_HIVE=$(HIVE) -DWITH_TESTS=$(TESTS) -DTRAVIS_CI_SUCKS=$(TRAVIS_SUCKS)
 
 ifeq ($(shell $(UNAME)),SunOS)
 CONFIG_CMD = $(shell gecho -n "cd '$(BUILD_ROOT)' && " ; gecho -n "cmake -G'$(CMAKE_GEN)' -DCMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING=$(CROSS) -DUSE_SHELLHOOKS=$(SHELL_HOOKS) $(COMMON_CMAKE_OPTIONS) '$(REPO)'")