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On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:39:53 +0200 |
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Rémi Cardona <remi@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : |
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> > So how are we supposed to handle packages where upstream *require* |
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> > that anyone building from source runs 'make check'? |
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> If it's required to get the final binaries, then it should be in |
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> src_compile. |
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> I don't know any package that does require such a thing, but IMHO it |
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> should be a QA warning if a build system writes anything to ${D} |
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> during src_test. (could sandbox be tweaked to do that?) |
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A whole bunch of science packages have upstreams that say "If you're |
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building from source, run 'make check' and if it fails don't carry on". |
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For that matter, I'm strongly inclined to say that for Paludis too... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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