[Qgis-developer] building debian pckages runs "make Experimental"

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi Etienne,  I never build a package, so no idea how it works.
but the equivalent (IIRC) of make Experimental without the cdash upload
is make Test

ciao
Marco
On 09/07/2012 12:08 AM, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> I see 2 problems that result from automatic test execution
> 
> - it seems that qgis is built TWICE (at least when first run), after
> normal build "make Experimental" builds everything again (without
> normal console output). Is this the desired behavior?
> - qgis_wcsprovidertest hangs when there is no internet connection (or
> if connection is flaky), but at least bails out after 3 minutes
> - also submission to cdash can take a long time when internet is not
> available, as it tries 4 times to upload
> - .deb files are built after lengthy tests
> 
> As a result it takes a really long time to have built .deb files available.
> 
> IMHO it would be better to skip the tests, unless an option is given
> or an environment variable is set. At least allow to skip it in an
> easy way.
> 
> regards
> Etienne
> 
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Etienne Tourigny
> <etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Presently when building debian packages, following the instructions in
>> the INSTALL file, "make Experimental" is run, which adds a lot of time
>> to the build process and can be problematic when not connected.
>>
>> How can we tweak the debian rules (or better yet, the build
>> commandline) to skip "make Experimental" when building packages?
>>
>> regards,
>> Etienne
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