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Re: full regression test size
- To: Marc Espie <Marc dot Espie at liafa dot jussieu dot fr>
- Subject: Re: full regression test size
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:22:19 -0400
- cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:15:21 +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
>With the recent addition of new flag combinations to make check,
>the size of it is starting to be a problem...
>
>- Between make bootstrap that leaves stage1, stage2 files lying around,
>- between all the cores that the various aborts leave around,
>
>it becomes really trying... the latest snapshot went up to >200Mb on my
>i386. I shudder at what a risc architecture without shared libraries will
>come up to.
>
>I think that the cores could probably be wiped out while making check
>(after all, any core that needs investigating is pretty trivial to
>reproduce) and there could possibly be another target than make bootstrap
>that wipes stage1/* stage2/* after building (pretty simple, maybe I've
>missed it)... I'm not talking about bootstrap-lean, since I want to have
>the intermediate files in case there's a problem.
For the core dumps, you can try adding `ulimit -c 0' to the `runtest'
script installed by dejagnu - just before it execs expect.
zw