Re: [Nix-dev] how to disable tests

2013-01-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Christopher, Christopher Howard skribis: > Totals for this test run: > passes: 34732 > failures: 0 > unexpected passes: 0 > expected failures: 6 > unresolved test cases: 569 > untested test cases:1 > unsupported test cases: 9 > errors:

Re: [Nix-dev] how to disable tests

2013-01-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Christopher, > How do I run Nix with tests disabled? there is no easy way to disable tests globally. In Nix, test cases are supposed to succeed, really; a test failure is a serious issue. My guess is that the gnutls test suite will work fine when run in a chroot environment so that system pa

Re: [Nix-dev] how to disable tests

2013-01-25 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Christopher Howard's message of Sat Jan 26 01:36:14 +0100 2013: > Hi. I'm trying to build emacs-24.2, but I can't because guile-2.0.7 > won't build. One test failed. Personally, I don't care. There is always the option to fix a test .. so eventually also talk about the error. You don

[Nix-dev] how to disable tests

2013-01-25 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi. I'm trying to build emacs-24.2, but I can't because guile-2.0.7 won't build. One test failed. Personally, I don't care. (Coming from a Gentoo background, I know that half the packages out there with unit tests will fail their tests even though the software works fine, which is why tests are not