On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:25:49 +0100 Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Uh, you *are* testing things that use a library before you stable > > that library, right? > > When I was an architecture developer I tried to. But when > stabilising a minor version of curl (for example), testing all > reverse dependencies is no option. But this broke tests for Bazaar > for example in stable.
Then this is a legitimate problem that someone needs to know about and fix. So having src_test turned on globally is a *good* thing. > Badly written Autoconf systems which will break in src_test() with a > different version of intltool, which is not a direct dependency. Again, finding this is good. > That pitfall hit me several times in the last years. The more, x86 > e.g. ranges from embedded Geode platforms to dual core desktop > systems and running the sqlite test suite on the first is no fun. As > a user I would not accept two hours of build time. Test-driven > development is great, but not so widely used as one could wish it to > be. And if you're on an especially slow platform, as a user you can turn tests off. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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