On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Pavel Sanda <[email protected]> wrote: > Often before any package is installed the package is tested by make check. > To me, there is no reasonable way how to allow LyX run tex2lyx checks > _before_ it is installed because as you correctly say configure needs to > be run first.
The way I solve this is I run the export tests first. Then the tex2lyx tests work for me. Or you could run just one export test and that should work too. > I can explicitly forbid test phase in install scripts but it is not > standard and our approach should be to disable tex2lyx test instead > (it was not there in 2.0, in fact we add lot of tests in 2.1 as I saw). > I'm not sure what is the practise of _maintainers_ in binary distros > but if they are responsible they run make check as well and that will fail. This is a good place for a question I've been thinking about. Suppose that a test depends on abc_package. Should the test be disabled if abc_package is not available? But doesn't this give a false sense that everything is OK when maybe the test would fail even if abc_package were available? I guess that a responsible maintainer would install all libraries that the tests depend on so that all tests would be run? Scott
