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On Saturday 08 June 2002 15:16, Alexander Holler wrote: |
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> I've mentioned it before as a remark in another msg, I would find it nice |
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> to have a USE flag tests mentioned in the documentation. This could inspire |
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> some developers to call 'make tests' or similiar before installing if |
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> something is provided by the makefile of the package. |
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I think if there is a "make test" target like there is for things like |
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postgres. The postgres ebuild unfortunately does not run "make test". |
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The user can specify any CFLAGS he likes in make.conf and the postgres ebuild |
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will happily take them. But it has happened to me that "make test" broke |
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(giving times like 11:59:60 instead of 12:00:00). This would not be detected |
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by the ebuild and the user might later on experience problems without having |
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a clue about what happens. If postgres has this test target to make sure |
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everything works, I think the ebuild should run it. Especially for the gentoo |
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server distribution this has to be done! |
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Alex |
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-- |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety |
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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