On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 09:46:33AM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On 2026-07-27 09:12, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > When is it useful to build without the provided test suite? When another > > one is better? Why not contribute it then? > > > > Or is is just that you don't want to test your changes? > > In our case, we have pipelines that rebuild/repackage QEMU after a full > build+test, without running the test suite again. In those cases, building > the tests is wasted effort, and considerably increases the overall build > times.
I would suggest that building a second time is wasted effort too. If the 2nd build is byte-for-byte identical to the 1st build, then it is pointless. If it is not byte-for-byte identical, then you'll be taking binaries that have not been tested. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com ~~ https://hachyderm.io/@berrange :| |: https://libvirt.org ~~ https://entangle-photo.org :| |: https://pixelfed.art/berrange ~~ https://fstop138.berrange.com :|
