Hi Eelco, > # Beware! It took ~6 hours to compile PPL and run its tests on a 1.2 GHz > # x86_64 box. Nevertheless, being a dependency of GCC, it probably ought > # to be tested. > doCheck = true; > > A six hour compilation time for a small dependency of GCC is rather much - > OpenOffice compiles faster than that.
I see your point, of course, but at the same time I think that running the regression test suite for a package as basic as this one is really a good idea. Maybe build times could be sped up a lot by utilizing multiple CPUs for the build, i.e. by running make with an appropriate -j flag? Take care, Peter _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
