regression-test

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 18 20:25:06 UTC 2008


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


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