[Nix-dev] Re: Stdenv compilation times

[Michael Raskin]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> So I propose disabling "make check" in PPL. 
>>> 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.
>> Why - by default?
> Because I want my OS to work as reliably as possible, by default.

I want updates to take finite amount of time, so problems get fixed in
reasonable time by default.

What you said is no reason why the tests have to be run in the same
derivation that stdenv depends on. I described approach that will let
you know of any test failures anyway.

And look at bison - it is important for GCC, yet tests are getting
turned off because the test suite is incorrect in some places. You
really hope for a better treatment of PPL?
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