[Nix-dev] Re: Stdenv compilation times

[Peter Simons]

Hi Ludovic,

 > I don’t expect to build GCC and its dependencies by hand anyway, so to
 > me build time is irrelevant.  But I can understand others (e.g., Lluís,
 > who is currently the only building on ARM) have a different take on
 > this.

this sounds a loot like test suite runs should be configurable. The
build form should definitely run them, but individual users might want
to disable that feature to save some time during development.

Take care,
Peter