[aur-general] Customize testing in PKGBUILD

[Caleb Maclennan]

Just put the tests in. Download the sources in the source array, do 
whatever you need to do in prepare() to get them where they belong 
relative to the other sources, and have a check() function by default. 
If there are tests, having a check() function that runs them is almost 
always the right default behavior for a PKGBULID.

For people that want faster build times and don't care about tests, they 
already have a solution: the /etc/makepkg.conf file can be edited to add 
!check to the BUILDENV‌ array. This will suppress the test suites for 
all builds for that extra speed.

Caleb

On 2021-12-14 02:07, Jan Kohnert via aur-general wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm maintaining the eccodes aur package and would like to enable some 
> extra
> tests in PKGBUILD. This can be done by downloading extra testdata and 
> put that
> into the main build dir. As good as this may seem, it significantly
> blows up the
> build time of the package.
> 
> So I thought about somehow let the user decide whether to run those 
> expensive
> extra tests at build. Unfortunately I could not find a recommended way 
> of doing
> so.
> 
> Would it be an option to check an environment variable, call it
> ENABLE_EXTRA_TESTS or so, and run those stuff only if set? And 
> otherwise just
> run the usual tests without the extra data?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!