Re: Introducing a BUILD_ENV?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 05:22:14PM +0200, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> For updating the emulators/simh package, it would be useful to have a
> BUILD_ENV variable. It would be like CONFIGURE_ENV and TEST_ENV:
> added to MAKE_ENV when running do-build (${BUILD_MAKE_CMD}).
> 
> The use case for this is that I wanted to separate out the tests, which
> normally run as part of the build. They can be disabled by setting
> TESTS=0, which would nicely fit in BUILD_ENV.
> 
> Setting TESTS=0 in MAKE_ENV would cause it to be included in do-test as
> well, which would not help.
> 
> I worked around it by defining BUILD_TARGET= TESTS=0 all, but that's
> ugly and pkglint doesn't like it either.
> 
> Or is there some other way to approach this?

Before adding a global variable for just one package:

Does it work if you add TESTS=0 to MAKE_ENV and TESTS=1 to TEST_ENV?
 Thomas