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Re: Notes from the testing BOF at the summit
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: "'Ben Elliston'" <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>, "'Alexandre Oliva'"<aoliva at redhat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:35:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: Notes from the testing BOF at the summit
- References: <NUTMEGkWHZqYW8BYXif00000262@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:
>> I don't think you're following me .. :-) We're talking about _parallel
>> testing_.
>>
>> Ben
>
> Well, if you use parallelism in the makefile and use that command line
> syntax to subdivide the tests into a bunch of subsets that can be run in
> parallel.... doesn't that basically give you what you want?
Unfortunately not; in particular, the .log and .sum files are garbled
if run in this fashion. Also, sometimes there are race conditions in
the creation of supplementary files.
zw