On 05/28/2012 09:58 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Richard Purdie <
> richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 14:30 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
>>> On 28 May 2012 14:26, Andrei Gherzan <and...@gherzan.ro> wrote:
>>>> There is an internal test suite for dbus. You can enable building those
>>>> tests in configure:
>>>> "--enable-tests"
>>>
>>> Is there a good reason why these shouldn't be always ran when building
>> dbus?
>>
>> Well, we're cross compiling so it depends how they're written and
>> whether they can run in a cross environment. We've also taken steps to
>> reduce our build time so if these need something like perl or python,
>> adding those into the dependency chain is problematic.
>>
>>
> The fact that these tests are not compiled by default it's good. As a
> normal user of dbus i don't need those. But while doing an update a compile
> with tests i think it's necessary.

Can you build the tests and package them separately? Then they could be
installed as part of a test image.

Philip

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