Re: [PATCH] allow disabling tests

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 28/2/22 17:25, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 16:22, Simeon Schaub <schaub@mit.edu> wrote:
> > Ah, yes, sorry, I didn't check whether the tests were actually run. I
> > can rename this to something more like `build-tests` if you think that's
> > more informative.
>
> What problem are you trying to solve here ? It shouldn't
> matter whether we build the test binaries or not...

Maybe speeding up the build by restricting to compiling what is required
(and saving energy), similar to 
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220204152924.6253-3-f4bug@amsat.org/ ?