Bug 3511

Summary:	perl-module eclass doesn't work as it should
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Gretencord <arutha>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Gretencord 2002-06-08 11:00:19 UTC

There is a base_src_test() function but it is not called and even if it was 
called make test should die on any error. 
 
AFAIK every Perl module has to have a make test target so it should be no 
problem to let portage call this function on it's own. If I'm wrong all 
modules that have such a target should call this function in the ebuild then! 
(And make sure all do when you let the ebuild into portage!)

Comment 1 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-08 11:17:55 UTC

THis shouldn't be assigned to me, I've never even really lookd at the perl eclasses. I can answer questions about eclasses in general and I can deal with the ked eclasses which I write and maintain, but not the other ones. Unless you're really sure, don't assin bugs to developers yourself, let our bug wranglers do that.

Comment 2 Alexander Gretencord 2002-06-08 11:22:41 UTC

Oh ok. sry.

Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-08 16:35:07 UTC

When I first made the eclass, I added that in, but there a few perl module
packages with bad bad make test's.  And others lead to display issues (see the
gnucash and evolution ebuilds for the kinds of hacks we had to do for that).

Since make test is not _critical_ to installing them, I didn't make them all
call it.  Thanks for noticing, though.