Distributing 'make check' across a cluster

[Diego Novillo]

On 12-05-31 10:28 , Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> libstdc++ definitely works with installed testing (there may be a bug or
> two, e.g. PR 23867, that mean a few tests don't get run that way); it's
> how Mentor's testing works.

Great.

> That is however installed testing with a complete source tree available
> (but not a build tree); I don't know exactly what is needed from outside
> the testsuite/ directory (but see
> libstdc++-v3/testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp:libstdc++_init for what happens
> during the testsuite setup).

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.

> C, C++, Fortran, Obj-C and Obj-C++ testing have been known to work in the
> past for installed testing.  Java, Ada and Go are quite likely to have
> problems; I don't think I've tried installed testing for libmudflap,
> libffi, libitm, libatomic (but it should work for libgomp).

Yeah, right now I'm concentrating on the main C, C++ and Fortran tests. 
  Once I have the basic harness ready, I will look at the other languages.


Thanks.  Diego.