Robert Hensing
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Building without tests is useful for bootstrapping with a smaller footprint or running the tests in a separate derivation. Otherwise, we do compile and run them. This isn't fine grained as to allow picking `check` but not `installcheck` or vice versa, but it's good enough for now. I've tried to use Nixpkgs' `checkInputs`, but those inputs weren't discovered properly by the configure script. We can emulate its behavior very well though.
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