[Nix-dev] Re: Stdenv compilation times

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Isaac Dupree
<ml at isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>
writes:

> 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?

No, since from the Nix viewpoint the build inputs would still be
different.

Thanks,
Ludo’.