Re: useless /usr/tests tree for MKATF=no builds

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Nicolas Joly wrote:

> While checking MKATF=no builds, i noticed that, in that case, we do
> generate an almost useless `/usr/tests' tree.
>
> While previously some shell tests could be run mannually, we can't now
> because the interpreter switched to /usr/bin/atf-sh (since ATF 0.9).
> Other test that require c/c++ APIs are not even built ... Only remains
> a few input/results files.
>
> Unless we plan to integrate stuff that will not use ATF, i'm currently
> thinking of making tests set optional.
>
> This will require a new mtree list (etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist.tests), a
> new variable `test' in distrib/sets/sets.subr to allow generating the
> corresponding `tests.tgz' archive. And maybe some other adjustements
> somewhere ...
>
> Before stepping into this one, what do people think ?

Sounds reasonable to me.


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