[gentoo-dev] Re: controlling src_test

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Ravi Pinjala a écrit :
>> I, for one, would like to be able to control whether or not to run tests
>> that take a huge amount of time to run. Some test suites are
>> ridiculously comprehensive, and if we could have an option to disable
>> only those, or even run a reduced test suite, that'd be pretty neat.
> 
> We've already had this discussion before [1] and there is no
> one-size-fits-all solution for tagging tests.
> 
> Ryan's plan only proposes to enable/disable tests based on whether they
> can run inside a sandbox. That much is doable. Trying to quantify the
> time a test suite will take to complete is impossible : different
> arches, vastly different CPU clock speeds, same for HDDs sizes and
> speeds, ... is impossible.

I usually disable tests on a per-package basis using /etc/portage/env
entries.

dirtyepic@tycho ~ $ cat /etc/portage/env/sci-libs/fftw
NEWFEATURES=

for f in ${FEATURES}; do
    if [[ ! $f == "test" ]]; then
        NEWFEATURES="${NEWFEATURES} $f"
    fi
done

FEATURES="${NEWFEATURES}"


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