[Nix-dev] Re: Stdenv compilation times

[Lluís Batlle]

2010/1/18 Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru>:
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> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> So I propose disabling "make check" in PPL.
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>> As you know GCC is the dependency of about all of Nixpkgs.  To me it
>> makes a lot of sense to spend an effort having the core development
>> tools well tested by default.
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> Why - by default? Why not just have a separate ppl_checked package (of
> course they call one expression with different flags) with maintainer =
>  you + whoever wishes and platforms = all and priority = 1 ? This way it
> gets tested everywhere, test build can never be accused of using too
> much Hydra resource, and stdenv developers do not need special tricks
> for reasonable rebuild time.
I also like this approach.
In fact, in my working copies, I have the ppl check disabled, unless I
can reach hydra binaries for those. And changing stdenv this does not
happen often.