Distributing 'make check' across a cluster

[Jeff Law]

On 05/31/2012 05:22 PM, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>
>> Thanks.  Having the source tree available is not a problem, as I
>> require it to copy the actual testsuites into the work tree.  Adding
>> a few more files from the source tree would not be a problem.
>
> From:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/test.html
>
> You can run the tests with a compiler and library that have already
> been installed. Make sure that the compiler (e.g., g++) is in your
> PATH. If you are using shared libraries, then you must also ensure that
> the directory containing the shared version of libstdc++ is in your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or equivalent. If your GCC source tree is
> at /path/to/gcc, then you can run the tests as follows:
>
> runtest --tool libstdc++ --srcdir=/path/to/gcc/libstdc++-v3/testsuite
>
>
> Anyway. I don't test this way often, so all I know is that it used to
> work. If you have problems let me know and I'll fix 'em.
I think this still works -- AFAIK Red Hat's QE team makes use of this 
capability.

Jeff