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Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> I'd like to suggest we make FEATURES=test (and therefore USE=test) the |
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> default behaviour, rather than the opt-in we currently have. Far too |
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> many packages fail their test phase. |
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> Since we encourage users to set CFLAGS in ways that upstream may not |
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> have predicted, if upstream go to the trouble of providing tests it |
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> seems sensible to me that they should be run, unless there is a very |
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> good reason not to run them. This will help pick up faults that are due |
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> to the compiler version, CFLAGS etc much more consistently. |
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> At the very least, ebuild maintainers and ATs should be running with |
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> tests switched on. If the tests are known to fail then the ebuild can |
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> either RESTRICT=test, or just return successfully from src_test() |
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> where the test report is useful even if some tests fail. |
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> Thoughts? |
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Give me some numbers on how many things still fail with that enabled |
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because I would be concerned if the number is too high. |
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