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-trigger:
-  # start a new build for every push
-  batch: False
-  branches:
-    include:
-      - develop
-
-jobs:
-# manylinux1 is useful to test because the
-# standard Docker container uses an old version
-# of gcc / glibc
-- job: manylinux1_gcc
-  pool:
-    vmImage: 'ubuntu-16.04'
-  steps:
-  - script: |
-      echo "FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux1_x86_64
-        COPY . /tmp/openblas
-        RUN cd /tmp/openblas                                      &&  \
-            COMMON_FLAGS='DYNAMIC_ARCH=1 TARGET=NEHALEM NUM_THREADS=32' && \
-            BTYPE='BINARY=64' CC=gcc && \
-            make QUIET_MAKE=1 $COMMON_FLAGS $BTYPE && \
-            make -C test $COMMON_FLAGS $BTYPE && \
-            make -C ctest $COMMON_FLAGS $BTYPE && \
-            make -C utest $COMMON_FLAGS $BTYPE" > Dockerfile
-      docker build .
-    displayName: Run manylinux1 docker build
-- job: Intel_SDE_skx
-  pool:
-    vmImage: 'ubuntu-16.04'
-  steps:
-  - script: |
-      # at the time of writing the available Azure Ubuntu vm image
-      # does not support AVX512VL, so use more recent LTS version
-      echo "FROM ubuntu:bionic
-      COPY . /tmp/openblas
-      RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install \\
-          cmake \\
-          gfortran \\
-          make \\
-          wget
-      RUN mkdir /tmp/SDE && cd /tmp/SDE && \\
-          mkdir sde-external-8.35.0-2019-03-11-lin && \\
-          wget --quiet -O sde-external-8.35.0-2019-03-11-lin.tar.bz2 https://www.dropbox.com/s/fopsnzj67572sj5/sde-external-8.35.0-2019-03-11-lin.tar.bz2?dl=0 && \\
-          tar -xjvf sde-external-8.35.0-2019-03-11-lin.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/SDE/sde-external-8.35.0-2019-03-11-lin --strip-components=1
-      RUN cd /tmp/openblas && CC=gcc make QUIET_MAKE=1 DYNAMIC_ARCH=1 NUM_THREADS=32 BINARY=64
-      CMD cd /tmp/openblas && echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope && CC=gcc OPENBLAS_VERBOSE=2 /tmp/SDE/sde-external-8.35.0-2019-03-11-lin/sde64 -cpuid_in /tmp/SDE/sde-external-8.35.0-2019-03-11-lin/misc/cpuid/skx/cpuid.def -- make -C utest DYNAMIC_ARCH=1 NUM_THREADS=32 BINARY=64" > Dockerfile
-      docker build -t intel_sde .
-      # we need a privileged docker run for sde process attachment
-      docker run --privileged intel_sde
-    displayName: 'Run AVX512 SkylakeX docker build / test'