On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:35:49 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 06:57, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:49:53 +0200 > > Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Kevin F. Quinn
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