diff --git a/travis-build.sh b/travis-build.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e -x
+
+make -j2 $EXTRA
+
+if [ "$TEST" != "NO" ]
+then
+  make tapfiles
+  make -s test-results
+fi
diff --git a/travis-prepare.sh b/travis-prepare.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e -x
+
+CURDIR="$PWD"
+
+cat << EOF > $CURDIR/configure/RELEASE.local
+EPICS_BASE=$HOME/.source/epics-base
+EOF
+
+install -d "$HOME/.source"
+cd "$HOME/.source"
+
+add_gh_flat() {
+  MODULE=$1
+  REPOOWNER=$2
+  REPONAME=$3
+  BRANCH=$4
+  MODULE_UC=$(echo $MODULE | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
+  ( git clone --quiet --depth 5 --branch $BRANCH https://github.com/$REPOOWNER/$REPONAME.git $MODULE && \
+  cd $MODULE && git log -n1 )
+  cat < $CURDIR/configure/RELEASE.local > $MODULE/configure/RELEASE.local
+  cat << EOF >> $CURDIR/configure/RELEASE.local
+${MODULE_UC}=$HOME/.source/$MODULE
+EOF
+}
+
+# not recursive
+git clone --quiet --depth 5 --branch "$BRBASE" https://github.com/${REPOBASE:-epics-base}/epics-base.git epics-base
+(cd epics-base && git log -n1 )
+add_gh_flat pvData ${REPOPVD:-epics-base} pvDataCPP ${BRPVD:-master}
+
+if [ -e $CURDIR/configure/RELEASE.local ]
+then
+  cat $CURDIR/configure/RELEASE.local
+fi
+
+EPICS_HOST_ARCH=`sh epics-base/startup/EpicsHostArch`
+
+# requires wine and g++-mingw-w64-i686
+if [ "$WINE" = "32" ]
+then
+  echo "Cross mingw32"
+  sed -i -e '/CMPLR_PREFIX/d' epics-base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.linux-x86.win32-x86-mingw
+  cat << EOF >> epics-base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.linux-x86.win32-x86-mingw
+CMPLR_PREFIX=i686-w64-mingw32-
+EOF
+  cat << EOF >> epics-base/configure/CONFIG_SITE
+CROSS_COMPILER_TARGET_ARCHS+=win32-x86-mingw
+EOF
+fi
+
+if [ "$STATIC" = "YES" ]
+then
+  echo "Build static libraries/executables"
+  cat << EOF >> epics-base/configure/CONFIG_SITE
+SHARED_LIBRARIES=NO
+STATIC_BUILD=YES
+EOF
+fi
+
+case "$CMPLR" in
+clang)
+  echo "Host compiler is clang"
+  cat << EOF >> epics-base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.$EPICS_HOST_ARCH
+GNU         = NO
+CMPLR_CLASS = clang
+CC          = clang
+CCC         = clang++
+EOF
+
+  # hack
+  sed -i -e 's/CMPLR_CLASS = gcc/CMPLR_CLASS = clang/' epics-base/configure/CONFIG.gnuCommon
+
+  clang --version
+  ;;
+*)
+  echo "Host compiler is default"
+  gcc --version
+  ;;
+esac
+
+cat <<EOF >> epics-base/configure/CONFIG_SITE
+USR_CPPFLAGS += $USR_CPPFLAGS
+USR_CFLAGS += $USR_CFLAGS
+USR_CXXFLAGS += $USR_CXXFLAGS
+EOF
+
+# set RTEMS to eg. "4.9" or "4.10"
+# requires qemu, bison, flex, texinfo, install-info
+if [ -n "$RTEMS" ]
+then
+  echo "Cross RTEMS${RTEMS} for pc386"
+  curl -L "https://github.com/mdavidsaver/rsb/releases/download/20171203-${RTEMS}/i386-rtems${RTEMS}-trusty-20171203-${RTEMS}.tar.bz2" \
+  | tar -C / -xmj
+
+  sed -i -e '/^RTEMS_VERSION/d' -e '/^RTEMS_BASE/d' epics-base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.RTEMS
+  cat << EOF >> epics-base/configure/os/CONFIG_SITE.Common.RTEMS
+RTEMS_VERSION=$RTEMS
+RTEMS_BASE=$HOME/.rtems
+EOF
+  cat << EOF >> epics-base/configure/CONFIG_SITE
+CROSS_COMPILER_TARGET_ARCHS += RTEMS-pc386-qemu
+EOF
+fi
+
+make -j2 -C epics-base $EXTRA
+
+if [ "$BRBASE" ]
+then
+  make -j2 -C pvData $EXTRA
+fi