Re: Are there regular bulk builds with PKGSRC_RUN_TEST=yes?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 07:38:32PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>    Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:00:59 +0000
>    From: Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>
> 
>    * On 2016-01-16 at 10:57 GMT, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> 
>    > While there, is it fine to assume that test target dependencies are in
>    > the group of build dependencies?
>    > 
>    > For example devel/gmake requires Perl to run tests, is it fine to add
>    > it as USE_TOOLS += perl:build?
> 
>    Until we have TEST_DEPENDS or :test support in USE_TOOLS, yes, though
>    it would be helpful to add it on a separate line with a comment to say
>    it is only required for tests, so we can go around cleaning up later.
> 
> It shouldn't be too hard to teach pkgsrc about TEST_DEPENDS and :test,
> I imagine!  Anyone want to give it a try?

Well, the tricky part is that people want to run "make test" after an
initial build and not as single phase. So the early phases that collect
dependencies won't know about them.

Joerg