kdelibs (at least) : test building by default

[Dan Meltzer]

On 10/9/07, Dirk Mueller <mueller at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
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> > > Yes. Now that users are supposed to compile KDE4, we don't want them to
> > > waste time on unit test compilation.
> > Every user is a potential contributor, though ;)
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> Yep, and its an excellent way to scare him away by lengthening the build
> process even more. I probably have too old hardware, but it takes me more
> than 24 hours to build trunk, which is no fun at all.

Would it be possible to tie building tests with
buildtype=(debug|debugfull) ?  Most people building with debug or
debugfull are doing so because they are a bit more knowledgeable about
the software, and may have more of a use for running unittests.
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> Greetings,
> Dirk
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