[Nix-dev] Re: Stdenv compilation times

[Isaac Dupree]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:
> 
>>  > 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.
> 
> Right, but then you get different store paths.

could we run the testsuite *after* running install, using the 
build-directories before they're deleted, and would this allow us to 
have the same store path?

-Isaac