Back in May 2014, Michael asked: "Is there a way to run an individual test? At the moment I just run 'make check' but it would be much quicker to bisect if I could run an individual test."
Ditto his concern... Unlike the buildd systems, my alpha platform is slow enough that being able to make small modifications to individual tests and run them would be of significant value in getting the various FTBFS issues resolved. Yes, I said "various", as in "multiple-different-but-potentially- related." I'm getting a FTBFS on the current (Sept. 2015) glib2.0 source package for sid on alpha, and while the failures are not identical to those previously reported (one of mine occurs during the "mimeapps" testing), there are enough similarities to be a concern. My system (non-SMP) generates a segfault during one of the "mimeapps" tests, whereas the buildd system has no problem with *that* particular test, but fails elsewhere. Recently, Michael and I have renewed efforts to get glib2.0 built on alpha. Help from the package maintainers as far as figuring out how to run specific individual tests standalone would be a *huge* help to us. Thanks in advance for any assistance provided. --Bob
