RFC: Enabling -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=ON by default

[Andreas Hartmetz]

On Monday 08 October 2012 22:40:55 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi fellow kde-core-develers, i was thinking that from time to time someone
> commits some code that breaks the building of the tests.
> 
> This happens because people is not aware that those parts are unit tested.
> 
> I think that by enabling the building of the tests by default we at least
> make sure the tests will build and maybe when people see their code
> actually breaking the compilation of a unit test we get them to run them
> and maybe even improve them :-)
> 
> Of course, enabling building the tests by defaults makes compilation times a
> bit longer, but I do think that the benefits far surpass the problems and
> for people with really slow machines and/or needs to recompile stuff a lot
> there is always the possibility that they can ask cmake not to build the
> tests.
> 
> Comments?
> 
Good idea, let's do it.
I have to fix a unit test once in a while to make things build for me again, 
because my build script does compile with tests.

> Cheers,
>   Albert