Re: master: the tests take ages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On master, ‘make check’ hangs after
>>
>> PASS: tests/base32.scm
>> PASS: tests/hash.scm
>> PASS: tests/pk-crypto.scm
>> PASS: tests/pki.scm
>
> After "tests/pki.scm" comes "tests/builders.scm", which involves
> building a few packages from source code.  It takes a while.

Yes, some of the tests involve downloading a couple of packages, and
building them.  This takes a while the first time you run ‘make check’,
but is fast in subsequent runs (unless you removed ‘test-tmp’.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.