[gentoo-dev] Re: controlling src_test

[Ryan Hill]

Ryan Hill wrote:
> Rémi Cardona wrote:
>> Ravi Pinjala a écrit :
>>> I, for one, would like to be able to control whether or not to run tests
>>> that take a huge amount of time to run. Some test suites are
>>> ridiculously comprehensive, and if we could have an option to disable
>>> only those, or even run a reduced test suite, that'd be pretty neat.
>> We've already had this discussion before [1] and there is no
>> one-size-fits-all solution for tagging tests.
>>
>> Ryan's plan only proposes to enable/disable tests based on whether they
>> can run inside a sandbox. That much is doable. Trying to quantify the
>> time a test suite will take to complete is impossible : different
>> arches, vastly different CPU clock speeds, same for HDDs sizes and
>> speeds, ... is impossible.
>
> I usually disable tests on a per-package basis using /etc/portage/env
> entries.
>
> dirtyepic@tycho ~ $ cat /etc/portage/env/sci-libs/fftw
> NEWFEATURES=
>
> for f in ${FEATURES}; do
>     if [[ ! $f == "test" ]]; then
>         NEWFEATURES="${NEWFEATURES} $f"
>     fi
> done
>
> FEATURES="${NEWFEATURES}"

here's a crappy little script to automate it.

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