[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Speed up 'make check' operation

[Miklos Vajna]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 10:00:40PM -0500, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Instead of using our "binaries" in our calls to pactest and vercmptest, use the
> libtool linked ones. We need to ensure they are created by calling the scripts
> once, and from there we can use them directly. This has some pretty large
> benefits due to much reduced forking of processes.
> 
> Note: I am not sure this will work on all platforms, namely Cygwin. Further
> testing is necessary.

The other problem is IMHO that lt-pacman will use the system-wide
libalpm, which is not what you want when you use make check.

If you really want such a hack, then you should set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
correctly, but what about just using dolt from
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=dolt.git;a=summary ?

IIRC it worked fine with pacman-g2, so it'll be OK with pacman as well,
I guess.
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