Hi,
Many a times it's easier to check results from CI for either compile or
test failure. Hence, I've broken the build into two stages.

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index f4e08d59dd..45db1b8d9d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -35,8 +35,16 @@ before_script:
   - DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install --no-install-recommends -y
-qq -o=Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 libc-dev gcc g++ make autoconf automake
libncurses-dev gnutls-dev git

 stages:
+  - build
   - test

+compile:
+  stage: build
+  script:
+    - ./autogen.sh autoconf
+    - ./configure --without-makeinfo
+    - make
+
 test-all:
   # This tests also file monitor libraries inotify and inotifywatch.
   stage: test