From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 28 8:54:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307D837B401; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7SFrBI06527; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:53:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200108281553.f7SFrBI06527@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:53:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: RFC: on the merits of post-build testing To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3B8B5354.EE77877D@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=koi8-r Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28 Aug, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > That are a very interesting arguments, but the real point is that in > 99.9% of cases running tests wouldn't cause anything but useless waste > of CPU time. From the remainder 0.09% is associated with people adding > unsupported optimisation levels into CFLAGS (they deserve punishment > for that anyway) and 0.01% with people running strange hardware (i.e. > Alphas and faulty x86). Well, Maxim's opposition is the only one I knew about before. So well, in fact, I addressed his point first in my original posting: >> Why some dislike it: >> >> * it is a waste of the CPU time >> >> well, so is checking for the result of the malloc() :-) So is not >> compiling your kernel with -fomit-frame-pointer. I think, that >> majority of those concerned about the CPU time will use the >> precompiled packages. Testing time is, usually, only a fraction of >> the build time. Anybody else? -- |\__-----__/| _____/ ::::: :::\_____ '__--( ::::::::..::)--__` -mi If you have a / _- \/ :::::::\/ -_ serious knowledge / / :. .::::\ \ about computers -- | ::::::::::::| Ok, let's say you broke keep it in a secret! _|/ ::::____::\|_ the wall with your head "Rules of dating", / /:::::/:_::\::\:.\ What are you going to 'Playboy', ? 1994 | :| ..:(_/ \::|::|::| do in the next cell? | :|:::::. ::|: |::|.:| Stanislaw J. Lec \ |:: :::_/::/: :|:/ ((___\____\____/___/___)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message