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bug#43581: [PATCH] guix build: Add '--without-tests'.
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#43581: [PATCH] guix build: Add '--without-tests'. |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:58:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
>> * guix/scripts/build.scm (transform-package-tests): New procedure.
>> (%transformations, %transformation-options)
>
> Nitpick, use comma ^
>
>> show-transformation-options-help): Add it.
Oops yes, and I forgot to fix it before pushing. :-/
>> +Turning off tests leads to a different store item. Consequently, when
>> +using this option, anything that depends on @var{package} must be
>> +rebuilt, as in this example:
>
> This makes sense, so I'm curious about it's usefulness in practice, but
> there have been several times during porting sessions where I have
> disabled tests by editing the package.
Yeah, that’s the typical use case.
> $ time ./pre-inst-env guix build automake --without-tests=automake
> --verbosity=1
> The following derivation will be built:
> /gnu/store/0m9qp0rf74d6sray1ip6h050fzmrrya3-automake-1.16.2.drv
> building /gnu/store/0m9qp0rf74d6sray1ip6h050fzmrrya3-automake-1.16.2.drv...
> |offloading build of
> /gnu/store/0m9qp0rf74d6sray1ip6h050fzmrrya3-automake-1.16.2.drv to
> 'kluit.dezyne.org'
> /gnu/store/7qsz3avcfk6b6am0zj9ahsmjy8x6drxr-automake-1.16.2
>
> real 0m14.316s
> user 0m1.203s
> sys 0m0.072s
That’s also one of the packages I had in mind. :-)
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> This looks good to me. It’s much more convenient for the casual user
> than to clone the Guix repo and to edit the package definition there, or
> to extend the package collection with GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH or even a
> channel.
Yup.
> I suppose we’d have to fix all those packages that moved the check phase
> without also checking for the “#:tests?” keyword. There are quite a few
> of those that thus wouldn’t be affected by “--without-tests”.
Right, hopefully there aren’t too many of those.
Pushed as f458cfbcc54ed87b1a87dd9e150ea276f17eab74, thanks!
Ludo’.