diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8218395b..5c8ebbbd 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,34 +1,69 @@
-os: linux
-dist: trusty
-sudo: false
-language: python
-python: 3.6
-cache:
-  apt: true
-  ccache: true
-addons:
-  apt:
-    packages:
-      - "python3-pip"
-      - "libcap-dev"
-      - "libidn2-0-dev"
-      - "nettle-dev"
-      - "xsltproc"
-      - "docbook-xsl-ns"
+sudo: required
+language: c
+services:
+    - docker
+
 matrix:
-  include:
-    - env: CC=gcc
-    - env: CC=clang
-install:
-  - set -e
-  - export NINJA_LATEST="https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/download/v1.8.2/ninja-linux.zip"
-  - wget "$NINJA_LATEST"
-  - unzip -q ninja-linux.zip -d build
-  - export PATH="$PWD/build:$PATH"
-  - sudo ln -s $PWD/build /root
-  - pip3 install meson
+    include:
+        # cross compilation
+        # NOTE: cannot set cross compiler as compiler variable (meson tests also native build)
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=debian:unstable VARIANT=cross-compile.aarch64
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=debian:testing VARIANT=cross-compile.ppc64le
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        # musl (native)
+        - os: linux
+          # Message: WARNING: xsltproc: cannot process http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl-ns/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
+          # doc/meson.build:70:1: ERROR: Problem encountered: Docs cannot be built: xsltproc does not work correctly
+          env: DISTRO=alpine:latest EXTRA_BUILD_OPTS='-DBUILD_HTML_MANS=false -DBUILD_MANS=false'
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        # glibc (gcc/clang)
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=opensuse/tumbleweed
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=ubuntu:xenial
+          compiler: clang
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=ubuntu:latest
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=fedora:latest
+          compiler: clang
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=centos:7
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=debian:testing
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=debian:stable
+          compiler: gcc
+
+        - os: linux
+          env: DISTRO=debian:oldstable
+          compiler: clang
+
+before_install:
+    - DIR="/usr/src/iputils"
+    - printf "FROM $DISTRO\nRUN mkdir -p $DIR\nWORKDIR $DIR\nCOPY . $DIR\n" > Dockerfile
+    - echo "cat Dockerfile"; cat Dockerfile
+    - docker build -t iputils .
+
 script:
-  - set -e
-  - meson builddir -DBUILD_RARPD=true -DBUILD_TFTPD=true -DBUILD_TRACEROUTE6=true -DBUILD_HTML_MANS=true
-  - ninja -C builddir
-  - sudo sh -c 'PATH="/root/build:$PATH" make install'
+  - INSTALL="${DISTRO%%:*}"
+  - INSTALL="${INSTALL%%/*}"
+  - DISTRO_VERSION="${DISTRO#*:}"
+  - case $VARIANT in cross-compile*) BUILD="cross";; i386) BUILD="32";; *) BUILD="native";; esac
+  - docker run -it iputils /bin/sh -c "cd travis && DISTRO_VERSION=\"$DISTRO_VERSION\" ./$INSTALL.sh && if [ \"$VARIANT\" ]; then ./$INSTALL.$VARIANT.sh; fi && CC=$CC EXTRA_BUILD_OPTS=\"$EXTRA_BUILD_OPTS\" ../build.sh"
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ce3696a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+CC="${CC:-gcc}"
+BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR:-builddir}"
+PREFIX="${PREFIX:-$HOME/iputils-install}"
+
+# ninja-build is not detected causes build failing => symlink to ninja
+# needed for CentOS 7 but maybe for others
+if ! which ninja > /dev/null >&2; then
+	if which ninja-build > /dev/null >&2; then
+		ln -sv $(which ninja-build) /usr/local/bin/ninja
+	else
+		echo "ninja binary not found (tried ninja and $NINJA on $PATH)" >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+
+which meson > /dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "meson binary not found" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+BUILD_OPTS="-Dprefix=$PREFIX -DBUILD_RARPD=true -DBUILD_TFTPD=true -DBUILD_TRACEROUTE6=true $EXTRA_BUILD_OPTS"
+[ -z "$EXTRA_BUILD_OPTS" ] && BUILD_OPTS="$BUILD_OPTS -DBUILD_HTML_MANS=true"
+[ -f "meson.cross" ] && BUILD_OPTS="--cross-file $PWD/meson.cross $BUILD_OPTS"
+
+cd `dirname $0`
+
+echo "=== compiler version ==="
+$CC --version
+
+echo "=== meson version ==="
+meson --version
+
+echo "=== ninja version ==="
+ninja --version
+
+echo "=== build ==="
+echo "Build options: $BUILD_OPTS"
+meson $BUILD_DIR $BUILD_OPTS && \
+make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && make install
+ret=$?
+
+cat << EOF
+============
+END OF BUILD
+============
+
+EOF
+
+if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
+	log="$DIR/meson-logs/meson-log.txt"
+	if [ -f "$log" ]; then
+		echo "=== START $log ==="
+		cat $log
+		echo "=== END $log ==="
+	fi
+fi
+
+exit $ret
diff --git a/travis/alpine.sh b/travis/alpine.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..20aac35e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/alpine.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
+set -e
+
+apk update
+
+# NOTE: libidn2-dev is not in 3.10, only in edge
+apk add \
+	clang \
+	docbook-xml \
+	docbook-xsl \
+	gcc \
+	gettext-dev \
+	libcap-dev \
+	libxslt \
+	make \
+	meson \
+	musl-dev \
+	nettle-dev \
+	openssl-dev \
+	pkgconfig
diff --git a/travis/centos.sh b/travis/centos.sh
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..1479a43e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/centos.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fedora.sh
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diff --git a/travis/debian.cross-compile.aarch64.sh b/travis/debian.cross-compile.aarch64.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..67002bc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/debian.cross-compile.aarch64.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
+set -e
+
+dpkg --add-architecture arm64
+apt update
+
+apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
+	dpkg-dev \
+	gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu \
+	libc6-dev-arm64-cross \
+	libcap-dev:arm64 \
+	libidn2-0-dev:arm64 \
+	libssl-dev:arm64
+
+cat <<EOF > meson.cross
+[binaries]
+c = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc'
+pkgconfig = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-pkg-config'
+
+[host_machine]
+system = 'linux'
+cpu_family = 'aarch64'
+cpu = 'aarch64'
+endian = 'little'
+EOF
diff --git a/travis/debian.cross-compile.ppc64le.sh b/travis/debian.cross-compile.ppc64le.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..27cfc259
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/debian.cross-compile.ppc64le.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
+set -e
+
+dpkg --add-architecture ppc64el
+apt update
+
+apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
+	dpkg-dev \
+	gcc-powerpc64le-linux-gnu \
+	libc6-dev-ppc64el-cross \
+	libcap-dev:ppc64el \
+	libidn2-0-dev:ppc64el \
+	libssl-dev:ppc64el
+
+cat <<EOF > meson.cross
+[binaries]
+c = 'powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc'
+pkgconfig = 'powerpc64le-linux-gnu-pkg-config'
+
+[host_machine]
+system = 'linux'
+cpu_family = 'ppc64'
+cpu = 'ppc64'
+endian = 'little'
+EOF
diff --git a/travis/debian.sh b/travis/debian.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3a9bbae9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/debian.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
+set -e
+
+if [ "$DISTRO_VERSION" = "oldstable" ]; then
+	cat <<EOF | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list
+deb http://http.debian.net/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
+EOF
+BACKPORT_REPO="stretch-backports"
+fi
+
+if [ "$DISTRO_VERSION" = "xenial" ]; then
+	cat <<EOF | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-backports.list
+deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
+EOF
+BACKPORT_REPO="xenial-backports"
+fi
+
+apt update
+
+apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
+	clang \
+	docbook-xsl-ns \
+	file \
+	gcc \
+	gettext \
+	libcap-dev \
+	libidn2-0-dev \
+	libssl-dev \
+	make \
+	meson \
+	nettle-dev \
+	pkg-config \
+	xsltproc
+
+if [ "$BACKPORT_REPO" ]; then
+	apt install -y --no-install-recommends -t $BACKPORT_REPO meson
+fi
diff --git a/travis/fedora.sh b/travis/fedora.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..096917eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/fedora.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
+set -e
+
+yum -y install \
+	clang \
+	gcc \
+	gettext \
+	libcap-devel \
+	libxslt \
+	make \
+	nettle-devel \
+	openssl-devel \
+	pkg-config \
+	which
+
+yum -y install libidn2-devel docbook5-style-xsl || true
+
+# supported since Centos 7 (Centos 6 don't have python 3.5 meson dependency)
+if [ "$(basename $0)" = "centos.sh" ]; then
+	yum -y install epel-release
+fi
+
+yum -y install meson ninja-build
diff --git a/travis/opensuse.sh b/travis/opensuse.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..f0d5c29f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/opensuse.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
+set -e
+
+zypper --non-interactive install --no-recommends \
+	clang \
+	docbook_5 \
+	docbook5-xsl-stylesheets \
+	gcc \
+	gettext-tools \
+	libcap-devel \
+	libcap-progs \
+	libidn2-devel \
+	libnettle-devel \
+	libxslt-tools \
+	make \
+	meson \
+	ninja \
+	openssl-devel \
+	pkg-config \
+	which
diff --git a/travis/ubuntu.sh b/travis/ubuntu.sh
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..0edcb8b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/ubuntu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+debian.sh
\ No newline at end of file