From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: building but skipping tests?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:46:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r5ijuj0.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsg1E-kX=qDzDadzOoK1Z+FNiAzipE7qvp+WXqbfjT1GcLCoA@mail.gmail.com> (Andy Tai's message of "Sat, 7 Aug 2021 16:31:41 -0700")
Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:
> Hi, if I try to install a package and that may trigger building a
> number of dependencies (when no substitutes for some reason but that
> is outside the concern of this question), I notice that since the
> build processes would run the tests by default, that takes a lot of
> time. I wonder if it is possible to skip tests when building
> locally? Of course running tests are good but if I am not a
> developer of the packages being built running the tests may not be of
> much utility to me.
Note that you can disable the tests. BUT enabling said tests, lets you
find errors, which you can report, which is really valuable to guix
developers. :)
>
> Thanks for the info on this.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-21 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-07 23:31 building but skipping tests? Andy Tai
2021-08-08 8:20 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2021-09-21 6:46 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2021-09-21 7:35 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-09-21 19:31 ` Joshua Branson
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