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From: "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:47:40
Message-Id: 20060805184801.GA23638@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:35:49PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Saturday 05 August 2006 06:57, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:49:53 +0200
4 > > Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> wrote:
5 > > > Please re-read the list of packages that fail tests:
6 > > > * glibc
7 > > > * autoconf
8 > > > * gettext
9 > > > * tar
10 > > > That makes _4_ system packages. Before I would consider making
11 > > > FEATURES=test a default, I would add least want the system set to
12 > > > actually merge with it.
13 > >
14 > > So you're happy to let users install these packages without them
15 > > knowing the tests would fail?
16 >
17 > before i added binutils-2.17, i ran `make check` on it for about 25
18 > targets ... of those, about 10 failed ...
19 >
20 > i checked with upstream and others reproduced it ... i dont know about you,
21 > but i dont have the skills to go in and fix the failures for all of those
22 > architectures
23
24 Then RESTRICT=test, or use a src_test which warns on test failures
25 rather than aborting, could be used. Or am I missing something?
26
27 > while i like the idea of all packages being able to pass FEATURES=test,
28 > somethings it just aint gonna happen with Gentoo's available skill set
29 > -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>