Re: Reaend: [PATCH hurd/debian] Add libfshelp-tests programs and documentation to hurd-dev
Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-01-08 14:36:02)
> Svante Signell, le Thu 08 Jan 2015 14:30:46 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 14:17 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Svante Signell, le Thu 08 Jan 2015 14:11:46 +0100, a écrit :
> > > > Attached is the patch for debian/hurd-dev.install.in to include the
> > > > four test programs locks, race, fork, checklock and documentation for
> > > > some of them.
> > >
> > > Mmm, why shipping the tests? I haven't seen any debian package doing
> > > that: we usually just run them at build time.
> >
> > Well, in the hurd-dev package there are already two tests included:
> > ./bin/fstests
> > ./bin/timertest
> > (and they are not run during build time)
>
> Well, I'd say they should not be installed, but run at build time :)
True, but otoh all the "tests" in the Hurd tree I've seen are really
trivial. Looks like someone started them, then lost interest.
Running tests at build time sounds awesome, but I feel like we need
proper support for unprivileged subhurds first.
Justus
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