CI: use a release build for the test suite (#278)

* CI: use a release build for the test suite

Makefile: the "testsuite" target is no longer needed

* rename EXTRA_NIM_PARAMS to NIMFLAGS

.appveyor.yml

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ build_script:
 test_script:
   - mingw32-make -j2 ARCH_OVERRIDE=%PLATFORM% V=0
   - build\nimbus.exe --help
-  - mingw32-make -j2 ARCH_OVERRIDE=%PLATFORM% V=0 test
+  - mingw32-make -j2 ARCH_OVERRIDE=%PLATFORM% V=0 NIMFLAGS="-d:release" test
   - IF "%PLATFORM%" == "x64" mingw32-make -j2 test-reproducibility
 
 deploy: off

.travis.yml

@@ -35,5 +35,6 @@ script:
   - set -e # fail fast
   - make -j${NPROC} V=0
   - ./build/nimbus --help
-  - make -j${NPROC} V=0 test test-reproducibility
+  - make -j${NPROC} V=0 NIMFLAGS="-d:release" test
+  - make -j${NPROC} V=0 test-reproducibility
 

Makefile

@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ RUN_CMD_IN_ALL_REPOS = git submodule foreach --recursive --quiet 'echo -e "\n\e[
 ENV_SCRIPT := "$(CURDIR)/env.sh"
 # duplicated in "env.sh" to prepend NIM_DIR/bin to PATH
 NIM_DIR := vendor/Nim
-# extra parameters for the Nim compiler
-NIM_PARAMS := $(EXTRA_NIM_PARAMS)
+#- extra parameters for the Nim compiler
+#- NIMFLAGS should come from the environment or make's command line
+NIM_PARAMS := $(NIMFLAGS)
 # verbosity level
 V := 1
 NIM_PARAMS := $(NIM_PARAMS) --verbosity:$(V)
@@ -140,13 +141,9 @@ nimbus.nims:
 	ln -s nimbus.nimble $@
 
 # builds and runs the test suite
-testsuite: | build deps
+test: | build deps
 	$(ENV_SCRIPT) nim test $(NIM_PARAMS) nimbus.nims
 
-#- builds the tools, to make sure they're still compilable
-#- builds and runs all tests
-test: | testsuite
-
 # primitive reproducibility test
 test-reproducibility:
 	+ [ -e build/nimbus ] || $(MAKE) V=0 nimbus; \

README.md

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ make LOG_LEVEL=TRACE nimbus # log everything
 - pass arbitrary parameters to the Nim compiler:
 
 ```bash
-make EXTRA_NIM_PARAMS="-d:release"
+make NIMFLAGS="-d:release"
 ```
 
 - if you want to use SSH keys with GitHub:

tests/all_tests.nim

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ import  ./test_code_stream,
         ./test_op_memory,
         ./test_op_misc,
         ./test_state_db
+