Re: [gentoo-dev] testing during emerge?

[Peter Fein <pfein@pobox.com>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:47:56 -0700
George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Well, I guess this can easily be done via another USE flag. I see no reason to
> do any changes to portage or anything, just the ebuilds (at least some of 
> them) should be done to allow optionally run included test suites.

I was thinking that some portage/ebuild infrastructure might save some code
repitition.  The problem seems more complicated than doing "make test || die" -
especially when you get in to expected failures, etc..  Maybe I'm making this more difficult than it needs to be. ;)

> And then, I just want to emphasize that this should be optional, as not that 
> many people will be happy about forced increase in compile time. Thus I think 
> this is the case where use flag is an ideal approach.

Choice is good.
 
> Then I guess you help can be in the form of submitting diff's against the 
> ebuilds, where you would like to add optional tests ;). The tests should 
> apparently be run from within src_compile() (and die on failure).

I'm willing to take a crack at this, but getting maintainers on board seems useful as it's a natural extension of the configure/build process.

> Though I somehow feel, that this issue has a potential to grow into a long 
> discussion thread, what seems to be quite popular lately. So you might want 
> to hold off for a few days to see how this turns out in the end..

You don't need to tell me not to work twice. ;)

--Pete
 
> On Thursday 10 April 2003 18:33, Peter Fein wrote:
> > Sorry if this has been covered before...
> >
> > So I recently got hit by the gcc/pentium4 bug, as described here:
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43373
> >
> > Why this was particularly annoying is that Python (and lots of other progs)
> > include test suites which can catch these sort of things.  While this is a
> > non-issue for binary distros, being able to run a test suite ("make test"
> > or whatever) as part of an emerge would be pretty useful.  My ebuild
> > experience is somewhat limited (though it doesn't look that hard) though
> > I've done a good bit of work in Python.  I'd be willing to help out on such
> > a project, if there's interest.
> >
> > --Pete
> 
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