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+name: generic-release
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    # This will eventually only be for pushes to master
+    # but for dogfooding purposes, I'm running it even 
+    # on dev pushes
+    branches: [ dev, master, actionsTest ]
+
+jobs:
+  # missing jobs
+  # 
+  # ppc64le + fuzz test
+  # Qemu PPC64 + Fuzz test
+  # Qemu aarch64 + Fuzz Test (on Xenial)
+  # versions comp   
+  # meson test
+
+  osx:
+    runs-on: macos-10.15
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: OS-X
+      run: |
+        make test
+        # make -c lib all (need to fix. not working right now)
+  
+  zbuff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: zbuff test
+      run: |
+        make -C tests test-zbuff
+        
+  tsan:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: thread sanitizer
+      run: |
+        sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://llvm.org/apt/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty-3.8 main"
+        sudo apt-get update
+        sudo apt-get install clang-3.8
+        CC=clang-3.8 make tsan-test-zstream
+        CC=clang-3.8 make tsan-fuzztest
+  zlib-wrapper:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: zlib wrapper test
+      run: |
+        make gpp6install valgrindinstall
+        make -C zlibWrapper test
+        make -C zlibWrapper valgrindTest
+  
+  lz4-threadpool-partial-libs:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: LZ4, thread pool, and partial libs testslib wrapper test
+      run: |
+        make lz4install
+        make -C tests test-lz4
+        make clean
+        make -C tests test-pool
+        make clean
+        bash tests/libzstd_partial_builds.sh