On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:47:31 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> Is DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=notest [1] meant to relate to:
> 
> 1. tests compiled and run by './configure'
> or
> 2. tests compiled and run by 'make check'
> 
> ?

For the latter. Because usually it takes a lot of time, and because
if the test itself is meant to be run, you cannot do that on a normal
cross-build environment (one that does not provide emulation).

> I'm testing with libglib2.0-0 and ./configure is failing because it
> cannot compile test programs to determine configuration settings - I'm
> using amd64 principally so scratchbox doesn't come in to it.

Then that configure is broken, those checks should work when cross
compiling.

regards,
guillem


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