On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:03:54 +0100 Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:08:03PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > > What about: > > > > "Packages that run a test suite during the default build must support > > omitting the tests either upon detecting cross-compiling using > > dpkg-architecture or when -nocheck is specified in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS." > > If a package can handle cross-compilation properly then it will skip > tests in the testsuite that would require to run compiled binaries. So > cross-compiling in itself should not be a reason to omit the test suite. > > Packages should just check for -nocheck; adding -nocheck to > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS should be the job of the cross-compiling environment. It is. All I want is that packages omit the test suite when cross compiling. If that is done by detecting the cross compiler, that's OK because the cross compiling environment sets -nocheck anyway. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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