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Re: Proposed environment variable to skip running tests
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Proposed environment variable to skip running tests |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:09:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
address@hidden skribis:
> I would like to propose an environment variable that can be used to
> skip tests, e.g. export GUIX_SKIP_TESTS=1
>
> This could be implemented by changing line 297 of
> guix/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
>
> (define* (check #:key target (make-flags '()) (tests? (not target))
> (test-target "check") (parallel-tests? #t)
> #:allow-other-keys)
> (if (and tests? (not (getenv "GUIX_SKIP_TESTS"))) ;;;;;; HERE
Since builds are performed in an isolated environments with a clearly
defined set of environment variables. Thus what you define would not
work as-is.
To achieve it, we’d have to, for instance, instruct guix-daemon to
special-case ‘GUIX_SKIP_TESTS’ and let it through in the build
environment.
Even though I can imagine the pain you feel while rebuilding everything
on GNU/Hurd, I’m reluctant to such changes. I would suggest using
tricks to avoid full rebuilds in your case as much as possible. (If you
provide concrete examples of rebuilds you’d like to avoid, I can perhaps
illustrate what “tricks” you could use. :-))
Thanks,
Ludo’.