Hi Eelco, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>>> So I propose disabling "make check" in PPL. >>>> As you know GCC is the dependency of about all of Nixpkgs. To me it >>>> makes a lot of sense to spend an effort having the core development >>>> tools well tested by default. >>> Why - by default? >> >> Because I want my OS to work as reliably as possible, by default. > > Obviously that's important, but it doesn't mean other considerations (such as > build time) are irrelevant. I don’t expect to build GCC and its dependencies by hand anyway, so to me build time is irrelevant. But I can understand others (e.g., Lluís, who is currently the only building on ARM) have a different take on this. > Here we're talking about increasing the stdenv build time by a factor > of 3 I agree that stdenv is on the critical path of the dependency DAG. OTOH, 6 hours is negligible compared to the time it takes to build even a small subset of Nixpkgs. > or so for a small library providing functionality that doesn't appear > to be used in Nixpkgs for the moment. Well, it’s used in GCC. Did you mean that GCC is used in such a way that PPL isn’t used in practice? > For reliability it would be a lot more useful to run GCC's testsuite, but that > might be hard in the bootstrap because of the dependency on Tcl and Expect. Agreed. Thanks, Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
