Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis: >>>>> Can we disable the test suite for certain architectures? Or would they >>>>> have to be disabled completely? >>> >>> Since it fails the same way on mips64el, I suggest this instead: >>> >>> #:tests? (string=? (or (%current-system) (%current-target-system)) >>> "x86_64-linux") >> >> Oops, we forgot to mention that there should be a comma before that >> first open paren, like this: >> >> #:tests? ,(string=? (or (%current-system) (%current-target-system)) >> "x86_64-linux") > > Attached is a patch that disables the tests on all systems but > x86_64-linux. I'm unsure about the indentation, though. Should the > compared string really be aligned with the arguments of `(or' (as shown > above), or rather aligned with `(or', the argument to `(string=?' (as in > the attached patch)?
The patch uses the right alignment. When in doubt, you can check “Formatting Code” in ‘HACKING’ (although I admit the style guidelines it refers to is quite verbose.) > From c9846248c28f2c22660c156d4275326fe8afac80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:23:01 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: samtools: disable tests for non-64-bit systems > > * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (samtools): disable tests for all non-64-bit > systems because of an upstream bug in the test data. Applied, thanks! Ludo’.