[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Package Updates

Andrei Gherzan andrei at gherzan.ro
Mon May 28 13:58:52 UTC 2012


On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 14:30 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 28 May 2012 14:26, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro> wrote:
> > > There is an internal test suite for dbus. You can enable building those
> > > tests in configure:
> > > "--enable-tests"
> >
> > Is there a good reason why these shouldn't be always ran when building
> dbus?
>
> Well, we're cross compiling so it depends how they're written and
> whether they can run in a cross environment. We've also taken steps to
> reduce our build time so if these need something like perl or python,
> adding those into the dependency chain is problematic.
>
>
The fact that these tests are not compiled by default it's good. As a
normal user of dbus i don't need those. But while doing an update a compile
with tests i think it's necessary.

@g
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