On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:35:49PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 05 August 2006 06:57, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:49:53 +0200 > > Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please re-read the list of packages that fail tests: > > > * glibc > > > * autoconf > > > * gettext > > > * tar > > > That makes _4_ system packages. Before I would consider making > > > FEATURES=test a default, I would add least want the system set to > > > actually merge with it. > > > > So you're happy to let users install these packages without them > > knowing the tests would fail? > > before i added binutils-2.17, i ran `make check` on it for about 25 > targets ... of those, about 10 failed ... > > i checked with upstream and others reproduced it ... i dont know about you, > but i dont have the skills to go in and fix the failures for all of those > architectures
Then RESTRICT=test, or use a src_test which warns on test failures rather than aborting, could be used. Or am I missing something? > while i like the idea of all packages being able to pass FEATURES=test, > somethings it just aint gonna happen with Gentoo's available skill set > -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
