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[PATCH 0/N] parallel tests execution in Automake


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: [PATCH 0/N] parallel tests execution in Automake
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:36:57 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

[ moving from automake@ ]
[ N will be a dozen or so, apologies for the mail bombing ]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:33:21AM CET:
> I've cleaned up the patch set for parallel tests execution in Automake,
> and put it in a public branch for people to poke with:
>   git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/automake.git
>   git checkout ad-parallel-tests origin/ad-parallel-tests

Here we go.

Patches 1-4 are taken directly from this thread:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/3225>
but with some of the comments from the thread addressed.

First, here are the remaining issues that I listed in the first message:

| 11) allow for extensibility like multiple test suites, each with their
|     own set of logs.
| 12) allow for additional output on stdout/stderr?
|     example: test was skipped because of $reason.
| 13) allow for post-test action in the rule (like: clean foo.dir in
|     Automake's test suite)?
| 14) let subdir tests depend on dirstamp instead of each one calling
|     MKDIR_P?

None of these have been addressed yet.  However, (12) is easily achieved
by the package author in the manner that coreutils does it right now:
adding something like `9>&2' to TESTS_ENVIRONMENT or, preferably, the
per-extension test driver (see the last patch).

The other issues are easily postponed (i.e., are useful TODO items, but
nothing that prevents the current branch from being releasable).

Cheers,
Ralf




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