Hi, Christina O'Donnell <c...@mutix.org> skribis:
> On 06/05/2024 11:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> For sure I’d be happy if the test suite could run faster, but does >> upstream offer such an option? When you say “a single pass”, is that >> something upstream supports? > Yes, you can control the tests by setting environment variables > NSS_TESTS to a list of tests and NSS_CYCLES to a list of 'cycles' > (what I previously called passes). The default is: > > "standard pkix threadunsafe" > > * 'standard' runs all of the below tests with default settings: > "cipher lowhash cert dbtests tools sdr crmf smime ssl ocsp merge > pkits ec gtests ssl_gtests policy" > > * 'pkix' runs the tests "lowhash libpkix cert tools ssl ocsp pkits ec > gtests ssl_gtests policy" with PKIX enabled. > > * 'thread_unsafe' runs "ssl ssl_gtests" with "THREAD_UNSAFE" enabled. Interesting. > My thinking would be to run the thread_unsafe cycle normally, but to > reduce the test overlap between standard and pkix however, I can't say > that I'm knowledgeable enough of NSS to claim that that wouldn't leave > gaps that might bite us some point down the line. So it might be best > to leave it as is unless someone familiar with NSS can confirm that > it'd be safe to disable some tests/cycles. Right, there doesn’t seem to be an obvious way to disable those without also weakening test coverage. I wonder what Debian and others are doing. Thanks for explaining! Ludo’.
