On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 8:37 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 28/12/2021 13:17, Neal Gompa wrote: > > It is. There are plenty of packages that compile for tests. I have > > one, for example (libeconf). > > I think all compilation should be done in %build. >
It is not always reasonably possible, though that is certainly ideal. A lot of packages compile their tests just-in-time when requested, rather than building them up front. The issue is that not every build mechanism stores the compiler flags in a persistent way for multiple stages. Autotools, CMake, and Meson do; but a lot of others don't. > > Why? If the package is being maintained as a single spec across > > multiple branches, you'd have to ask them to condition it, which is > > hard to do. Removing it would break it for packagers maintaining a > > single spec across branches, all for avoiding a redundant call. It'd > > be better to advise packagers to only use this for older Fedora and > > EPEL and let them fix it. > > I agree. I think %set_build_flags can be removed after Fedora 35 reaches > EOL. > Makes sense to me. It might be nice to somehow get this backported to EPEL, but I wouldn't impose this on the Change proposers. Might also be worth checking with the RHEL folks to see if it could be ported to CentOS Stream 9. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
