Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> For iasl, upstream requests that if the tests are run at build time,
> that they are installed to the system, which is what we do. If
> FEATURES=-test USE=test is used however, using 'use test' is bogus,
> because I cannot detect that the tests are going to/have run.
Curr
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:45:38 -0700
"Robin H. Johnson" wrote:
> USE=test means: "build with support for tests"
USE=test is a special USE flag set by Portage if FEATURES=test, and the
two are supposed to be equivalent (the USE flag existing because
FEATURES isn't suitable for anything that's metada
So I saw the recent set of bugs filed for QA, complaining about misuse
of FEATURES, specifically that we should not be using the FEATURES
variable, and instead should be using "use test" to check for tests
being enabled.
USE=test means: "build with support for tests"
FEATURES=test means: "actually
