Bug 69021 – Support for src_test deps required

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2004-10-26 07:41:49 UTC]

Currently, there seem to be at least a few ebuilds that when doing their tests, need *more* in the way of dependancies when they don't do their tests. There's a local USE variable "makecheck" that a few ebuilds seem to be using, but this doesn't seem to be consistent at all. (someone might enable FEATURES="maketest" but not know about the makecheck variable).

One proposed solution by axxo was to make FEATURES="maketest" enable some USE variable that we can then use in DEPENDS.

Thoughts?

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-10-26 09:41:40 UTC]

Why no making it mandatory to add them to DEPEND, instead increasing complexity? The wonderland of features and use flags is getting big.

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2004-10-31 11:46:51 UTC]

kdemultimedia-3.3.0, kdenetwork-3.3.0 and swig-1.3.21 failed during test phase if FEATURES="maketest" is activated.

[Comment 3 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) 2006-01-19 04:08:33 UTC]

This seems rather old, but it would be very usefull... at least to me.
The app-text/tetex ebuild requires a running X (and hence X installed) to complete make check (maketest).
But it seems to be too much overhead to add X to DEPEND for tetex (many users won't like that X is pulled in just because of maketest).

[Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2006-02-10 18:37:43 UTC]

*** Bug 122382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2006-02-10 18:38:21 UTC]

TESTDEPEND on its own doesn't cut it. SRC_URI additions are sometimes required as well.

[Comment 6 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-01-11 09:10:30 UTC]

FEATURES=test now implies USE=test in r5551.

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2007-01-13 06:40:54 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.2_rc4-r9.