On 4/10/2012 1:51 AM, Andrew Deason wrote: >> If the builders are not going to fail the build for a test failure I >> do not see the point of running them for every build as part of >> patchset verification. > > How else are we supposed to know if they are going to fail or not when > we turn them on? Right now we are just guessing; they were turned on as > a guess and it broke all of the builders.
Its quite simple really. You ask each of the builder owners to run make check on their system before you turn it on. We know that "make check" does not work across the board. It never has. That is why it wasn't turned on previously. What should not be done is turn on a new feature that *might* break the existing system and generate additional risk when the builders are 30 or 40 patchsets deep in builds. In any case, what was done, was done. I would prefer the mistakes of the past not be repeated.
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