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Re: building but skipping tests?
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Guillaume Le Vaillant |
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Re: building but skipping tests? |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 08:20:13 +0000 |
Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> skribis:
> 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.
>
> Thanks for the info on this.
Hi,
The '--without-tests=pkg' option disables running tests for 'pkg' when
using 'guix build' or 'guix install'.
It is described at the end of [1].
[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html
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