From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 20:25:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC01E1065677 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA418FC24; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <48596F20.8010906@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:25:04 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Weisgerber References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression-test X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:25:06 -0000 Christian Weisgerber wrote: > So I just learned that pointyhat tries to run a target regression-test > as part of the build. (Somebody asked me to use that target in a > port.) > > Is this documented somewhere? I don't know off-hand. I assume you searched the handbook? > In particular, running tests of what duration would be considered > appropriate? E.g., building audio/flac takes a minute here, running > the tests sixteen, which I suspect would be excessive. 16 minutes is fine, the only ports that cause trouble are those that take many hours/days to build. Kris