Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:47:05 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression-test Message-ID: <20080618194705.GB92928@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <g3bff6$16eb$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <g3bff6$16eb$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:08:54PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > So I just learned that pointyhat tries to run a target regression-test > as part of the build. (Somebody asked me to use that target in a > port.) > > Is this documented somewhere? Not anywhere I know of, and it may be something specific to pointyhat as I see no mention of it in Mk/*. I have seen similar behavior in a tinderbox so I'm guessing it's specific to those environments. > In particular, running tests of what duration would be considered > appropriate? E.g., building audio/flac takes a minute here, running > the tests sixteen, which I suspect would be excessive. Obviously build times should be kept to a minimum. If the tests are not mandatory I'd suggest wrapping the regression-test stuff in a check for MAINTAINER_MODE being defined. This way you, or anyone else who wants to, can run the regression tests but pointyhat won't pick them up. -- WXS
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