Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default

["Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:35:49 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 05 August 2006 06:57, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:49:53 +0200
> > Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > Please re-read the list of packages that fail tests:
> > >  * glibc
> > >  * autoconf
> > >  * gettext
> > >  * tar
> > > That makes _4_ system packages. Before I would consider making
> > > FEATURES=test a default, I would add least want the system set to
> > > actually merge with it.
> >
> > So you're happy to let users install these packages without them
> > knowing the tests would fail?
> 
> before i added binutils-2.17, i ran `make check` on it for about 25 
> targets ... of those, about 10 failed ...
> 
> i checked with upstream and others reproduced it ... i dont know
> about you, but i dont have the skills to go in and fix the failures
> for all of those architectures

Agreed, however you could rig src_test() to either skip the tests on
those arches, or run them without die()ing and ewarn about the known
failures on those arches, or just leave them in ~arch (or even
masked) for the arches where they fail, depending on the impact of the
failures. That sort of thing is well within our role of package
management.

> while i like the idea of all packages being able to pass
> FEATURES=test, somethings it just aint gonna happen with Gentoo's
> available skill set -mike

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Kevin F. Quinn

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