On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:47:17PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > Making the last stage optional means that -nocheck achieves nothing, > IMHO. If the maintainer chooses to allow 'make check' during the build, > I believe that Policy should stipulate that the maintainer must ensure > that 'make check' can be skipped when appropriate. I use make check in > some of my own packages, it is useful on things like the autobuilders. > However, if Debian is ever to cross-build successfully, EVERY test > suite that executes compiled code MUST be skipped when cross-building. > The simplest way to do that is to specify that cross-building must > pass -nocheck in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and that all packages must obey > -nocheck.
Atleast some packages now don't run the testsuite when DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE != DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE. Are there any other reasons why testsuites shouldn't be run? Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
