[Nix-dev] Re: Ordering of ‘checkPhase’ and ‘installPhase’

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Rob,

Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas at gmail.com>
writes:

> Hi Ludo,
>
>> This is Plain Wrong(TM).  The ‘check’ makefile target must *not* depend
>> on the installed software (there’s ‘installcheck’ for that).  In
>> particular, it’s very important for ‘check’ to test the software that’s
>> just been built in $(builddir), not the one that’s installed.
>>
>> If Stratego’s build system relies on this bogus behavior, it should
>> change the order of phases in its own ‘release.nix’.  Another option is
>> for Stratego to have ‘check’ do nothing and do the actual tests in
>> ‘installcheck’.
>
> I agree with your reasoning, but as I do not have the time to change
> that in the next days for the StrategoXT packages, I reverted the
> patch until this has been changed. There are quite a lot of people
> here at TU Delft that are dependent on these (strategoxt related)
> builds, and therefore this has revert been done.

Understood.  Nevertheless, make sure to point them at this thread!  ;-)

Ludo’.