kdelibs (at least) : test building by default

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 9:52:00 am Dan Meltzer wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Dirk Mueller <mueller at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> >
> > > > 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 ;)
> >
> > 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.
> >

I think that's a pretty good compromise.
if buildtype==debugfull then also build unittests