waf check -- Should it always run tests?

Amar Takhar verm at darkbeer.org
Thu Nov 19 18:37:28 UTC 2015


On 2015-11-19 10:34 -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> Please set things up so that it runs the tests again, even if nothing has 
> changed.  (It doesn't have to rebuild things.)
> 
> It's reasonable for tests to use a random number generator so running again 
> may not be redundant.  Or maybe I'm chasing a weird bug where I'd like to put 
> things into a loop for a while to see if I can tickle a timing problem.

I can add a flag to force re-run the tests.  Running unrelated tests to the 
changes you've made is going to generate a lot of unessicary noise.


Amar.


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