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From: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
To: Suhail <suhail@bayesians.ca>
Cc: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>,
	Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>,
	Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Subject: Re: Turning off tests leads to a different store item
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 14:08:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUTwwCt2UoqfUJ03@ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0l818ka.fsf@>

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On 2023-11-02 15:25:33 +0000, Suhail wrote:
> [..]
> 
> The hypothetical test derivation leaves the build artifact unchanged,
> but does communicate some "side" information. It's like a fixed-output
> derivation carrying some metadata (further elaboration below).

I am not aware of any, but I wonder if there are test suites that actually
modify the built binary, for example by patching a bool flag `was_tested' to #t.
Runtime behavior could then differ based on the flag.  Do you have some ideas
how to detect/deal with this?

T.
-- 
There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-03 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-02 15:25 Turning off tests leads to a different store item Suhail
2023-11-02 17:02 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-02 17:46   ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-03 13:08 ` Tomas Volf [this message]
2023-11-03 20:44   ` Suhail
     [not found] <6543bf92.d40a0220.bbcd0.1118SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2023-11-02 16:03 ` Greg Hogan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-11-02 17:25 Suhail
2023-11-02 18:54 Suhail
2023-11-03  9:33 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-03 14:13 Suhail
2023-11-05 12:07 ` Simon Tournier
     [not found] <65429087.0c0a0220.5908c.4d60SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2023-11-07 18:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-07 21:58   ` Csepp
2023-11-08  2:53   ` Felix Lechner via
2023-11-08 14:45     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-08 17:07       ` Felix Lechner via
2023-11-08 18:18         ` Vagrant Cascadian
2023-11-08 19:20           ` Saku Laesvuori
2023-11-08 22:21             ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-09  3:17               ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-09  7:37                 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-09 15:04                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-16  9:31                     ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-18  4:38                       ` Maxim Cournoyer

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