Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 07:39:41 +0800 From: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@freebsd.org> To: Lars Balker Rasmussen <lars@balker.dk> Cc: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl Ports and 'make test' Message-ID: <20060701233941.GB76454@utopia.leeym.com> In-Reply-To: <20060701225715.GJ15291@tux.nerdheaven.dk> References: <44A6D67B.4060400@freebsd.org> <20060701225715.GJ15291@tux.nerdheaven.dk>
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:57:15AM +0200, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 02:09:31PM -0600, Aaron Dalton wrote:
> > I did a quick search of the mailing list archives and didn't see any
> > postings on this matter (which surprised me actually). Is anybody
> > working on a way to incorporate Perl's 'make test' procedure into the
> > port building framework?
>
> To move on a tangent to this:
>
> There's a problem with dependencies - ideally cpan-modules would introduce
> the possibility of installing without testing, and splitting dependencies
> into run, build and test.
>
> For some of my ports, a LOT of modules get pulled in, which have no other
> purpose than to support a test-suite we don't run. I've considered patching
> their {Build,Makefile}.PL to not require these modules, but it'll take a
> lot of work...
>
> A similar split of run/build/test in ports could be helpful, but without
> cpan doing the same, we'd probably not get anywhere fast.
>
> (Blame erwins beer for this stream-of-consciousness, and good night :) )
I split run/build/test dependencies in my ports, so the dependencies section
of my ports will look like this:
RUN_DEPENDS= ... the run dependencies ...
BUILD_DEPENDS= ${RUN_DEPENDS}
BUILD_DEPENDS+= ... the build/test dependencies, i.e. p5-Test-Simple ...
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Yen-Ming Lee [utf7:+Z05fZWYO] | KeyID:0x5EB52E51 | Taipei, Taiwan
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