On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:35:00 +0100 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:08:11PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > Actually, Guillem has already filed the bug: 416450 > > [PROPOSAL] New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites > > > > What needs to happen for that to be mandatory in Lenny? > > I am not sure - my plan was to have policy say that *if* there is a > testsuite and *if* the maintainer chooses to run it during build and > *if* the maintainer wants to allow the package builder to skip the > testsuite during build, it should support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. > > You seem to want to make it more strict than that - maintainers should > always support nocheck when a testsuite is run (skipping the last if > above)? Correct. Making the last stage optional means that -nocheck achieves nothing, IMHO. If the maintainer chooses to allow 'make check' during the build, I believe that Policy should stipulate that the maintainer must ensure that 'make check' can be skipped when appropriate. I use make check in some of my own packages, it is useful on things like the autobuilders. However, if Debian is ever to cross-build successfully, EVERY test suite that executes compiled code MUST be skipped when cross-building. The simplest way to do that is to specify that cross-building must pass -nocheck in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and that all packages must obey -nocheck. Equally, every package that compiles a build tool using the native compiler and then uses that to parse some config or other file, would have to use CC_FOR_BUILD but those packages are relatively rare and bugs against those packages should be sufficient to provide this support. > That might be something you'd have to discuss with the release > managers, or bring up again on -devel (or -policy) under a more > prominent subject to catch the interest of others. retitled and CC'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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