Re: Fwd: Running individual system tests

[Daniel Schäfer]

So you're saying, I have to run

```
./bootstrap
./configure
make
./pre-inst-env guix build my-new-package
```

which builds the daemon, and compiles all Guile modules?
And I have to do it, whenever I want to run any system test, or build an 
in-tree package (which I'm going to submit for inclusion)?
Or more precisely: It has to be run, once, before I do those things. 
Question: Doesn't it ever have to be rerun? How are new modules compiled?

It takes 33 minutes on my laptop and is only going to take longer, when 
Guix gets bigger.
Is there maybe an interpreted mode? Or could this be better with Guile 
3.0 JIT?

- Daniel

On 10/21/19 8:43 AM, Daniel Schäfer wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> For a test of an external system, like something I develop at work, I 
> don't want/need to have Guix with all modules compiled present.
> I don't want unnecessary steps if they are not necessary.
>
> Please refer to my first mail with an example of running a test 
> standalone.
> I'd like some assistance to make my snippet nicer and not return an 
> error after successfully running the test.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> On 10/19/19 7:35 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > I don’t understand why you would want to run a system test without
> > building Guix first.
> >
> > Could you elaborate?