Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add dlib.

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 24 August 2016 3:08:58 PM GMT-04:00, Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>>> Adding "#:parallel-build? #f" had no effect on tests, indeed the
>check
>>> phase does not seem to use the previously built dlib; it builds it
>again
>>> without parallel-build. I will try reproducing the
>non-reproducibility
>>> on some higher end hardware, hopefully this week.
>>
>> It's weird that it rebuilds the application again for the tests.
>Which
>> build is actually installed in the case of success? Is it worth an
>> upstream bug report?
>
>We rely on cmake-build-system for everything but the check phase, which
>doesn't have a "proper" check target. I'm no cmake expert, but we can
>probably prevent re-build by not including the main application in
>test/CmakeLists.txt and instead copy/link in our already-built version:
>
>https://github.com/davisking/dlib/blob/master/dlib/test/CMakeLists.txt#L15

The cmake build system has an #:out-of-tree? option, maybe set that to #f?

Ben