Bug 225957 – dev-cpp/gtkmm should not build tests with FEATURES=-test

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-06-11 18:59:59 UTC]

See my post at http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/06/11/please-dont-build-your-examples-by-default . It would be nice if gtkmm avoided building tests when the user has FEATURES=-test.

By the way, the examples USE flag is useless, it builds examples and demos but those _are not installed_, thus it only waste the users' time as the compiled code is discarded right away. I'd suggest getting rid of the USE flag.

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-06-12 09:49:44 UTC]

I know about the tests, cairomm is also affected by the same bug (see bug #224187)

This is on my todo, I just need to get around to actually doing it :)

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-06-12 10:10:47 UTC]

Hope you don't mind if I actually file bugs or these issues :) This way you are reminded of them in your TODO, and I'm sure they won't be overlooked :)

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-06-12 11:22:14 UTC]

Actually I hadn't noticed that gtkmm was affected too. So yeah, if you have more nitpicks like this, keep filing bugs :)

I'll try to do another gnome-mm bug fixing spree Real Soon (tm)

[Comment 4 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2008-06-13 22:31:50 UTC]

reported upstream in: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538226 

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-07-16 08:50:54 UTC]

Fixed in CVS with a minor caveat.

FEATURES=test will install 4 of the test programs' code into /usr/share/doc. This bug has been fixed in trunk and gtkmm 2.13.x no longer has that issue. Since it's only a few simple C++ files, it's not really bothering me.

If anyone really wants it fixed, I can backport the patch, but I just don't see the point.

[Comment 6 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-07-16 08:51:43 UTC]

and for the record, this was the current behavior and nobody had noticed/cared until now :P