FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Test suite build issues

[Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Axel =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6rfler ?= wrote:

> Ingo wrote:
> > I think, it is usually desired to compile the tests with `-g'. And `-
> > g' 
> > sort of implies `-O0'. IIRC the BFS tests are the only ones 
> > recompiling 
> > production code into the tests, while all other tests just link 
> > against 
> > the compiled code being compiled with whatever options desired.
> > 
> > While I'm rethinking the whole debug/warnings/options anyway (I have 
> > no 
> > completely satifying solution yet though), I guess, it won't harm to 
> > introduce a NO_TEST_DEBUG variable to turn off the current behavior 
> > (i.e. that the test rules override DEBUG and OPTIM). Would that be 
> > acceptable?
> 
> Yes, I actually think that this is the right way to go :-)

Alright, I will add it then.

> One shouldn't expect compiler bugs everywhere, and implementation bugs 
> should be much more common, so we should probably focus on those...

Good idea. ;-)

> It would be just nice to have an easy way of using the test suites with 
> a specific optimization level.

Well, the question is, how you define `easy way'. As soon as NO_TEST_DEBUG
is available, you can use e.g. `NO_TEST_DEBUG=1 OPTIM=-O1 jam ...'.

CU, Ingo