Add --mode=noop so progress can be made while the builders are being reconfigured

build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # IMPORTANT:
 # Please don't directly include this file if you are building via gyp_chromium,
 # since gyp_chromium is automatically forcing its inclusion.
 {
   # Variables expected to be overriden on the GYP command line (-D) or by
   # ~/.gyp/include.gypi.
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       # Set to "tsan", "memcheck", or "drmemory" to configure the build to work
       # with one of those tools.
       'build_for_tool%': '',
 
       # Whether tests targets should be run, archived or just have the
       # dependencies verified. All the tests targets have the '_run' suffix,
       # e.g. base_unittests_run runs the target base_unittests. The test target
       # always calls tools/isolate/isolate.py. See the script's --help for more
       # information and the valid --mode values. Meant to be overriden with
       # GYP_DEFINES.
-      'tests_run%': 'check',
+      # TODO(maruel): Converted the default from 'check' to 'noop' so work can
+      # be done while the builders are being reconfigured to check out test data
+      # files.
+      'tests_run%': 'noop',
 
        # Force rlz to use chrome's networking stack.
       'force_rlz_use_chrome_net%': 1,
 
       'platformsdk_path%': '<(DEPTH)/third_party/platformsdk_win7/files',
       'wix_path%': '<(DEPTH)/third_party/wix',
 
       'conditions': [
         # TODO(epoger): Figure out how to set use_skia=1 for Mac outside of
         # the 'conditions' clause.  Initial attempts resulted in chromium and
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     # settings in target dicts.  SYMROOT is a special case, because many other
     # Xcode variables depend on it, including variables such as
     # PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR.  When a source group corresponding to something
     # like PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR is added to a project, in order for the
     # files to appear (when present) in the UI as actual files and not red
     # red "missing file" proxies, the correct path to PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR,
     # and therefore SYMROOT, needs to be set at the project level.
     'SYMROOT': '<(DEPTH)/xcodebuild',
   },
 }