RFC: Enabling -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=ON by default

André Wöbbeking Woebbeking at kde.org
Mon Jan 14 19:36:03 GMT 2013


On Monday 14 January 2013 20:25:21 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dilluns, 14 de gener de 2013, a les 20:02:30, André Wöbbeking va 
escriure:
> > Hi Albert,
> > 
> > On Monday 08 October 2012 22:40:55 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > IMO packagers should be informed about this change as building tests also
> > 1) needs more build dependencies (e. g. Amarok needs gmock)
> > 2) increases object size (e. g. kexi adds extra code for the tests).
> 
> If you think that packagers should be informed about this change what are
> you waiting for?

Well, I don't know how.




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