Re: building but skipping tests?

[Joshua Branson]

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> Hi, if I try to install a package and that may trigger building a
> number of dependencies (when no substitutes for some reason but that
> is outside the concern of this question), I notice that since the
> build processes would run the tests by default, that takes a lot of
> time.   I wonder if it is possible to skip tests when building
> locally?   Of course running tests are good but if I am not a
> developer of the packages being built running the tests may not be of
> much utility to me.

Note that you can disable the tests.  BUT enabling said tests, lets you
find errors, which you can report, which is really valuable to guix
developers.  :)

>
> Thanks for the info on this.
>

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