By default tests are run on build and install. Normally, Alpine tests are invoked separately in a check stage. To allow doing that this patch disable the automatic test invocations during build and install. diff -upr bmake.orig/boot-strap bmake/boot-strap --- bmake.orig/boot-strap 2019-12-21 13:39:52.658136365 +0100 +++ bmake/boot-strap 2019-12-21 13:40:25.954816539 +0100 @@ -414,9 +414,6 @@ op_build() { [ -s make-bootstrap.sh ] || op_configure chmod 755 make-bootstrap.sh || exit 1 ./make-bootstrap.sh || exit 1 - case "$op" in - build) op_test;; - esac } op_test() { @@ -435,7 +432,6 @@ op_clean() { } op_install() { - op_test case "$INSTALL_PREFIX,$INSTALL_BIN,$prefix" in ,$HOST_TARGET/bin,*/$HOST_TARGET) INSTALL_PREFIX=`dirname $prefix`