From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17685 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2013 16:56:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 17665 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2013 16:56:57 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:56:57 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r71GunPd016527 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:56:49 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r71Gumpc019336; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:56:49 -0400 Message-ID: <51FA9350.2060808@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:56:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] introduce parallel mode References: <1374073124-23602-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> <1374073124-23602-3-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1374073124-23602-3-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On 07/17/2013 03:58 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > First, it checks for the GDB_PARALLEL variable. If this is set (say, > on the runtest command line), then the test suite assumes "parallel > mode". In this mode, files are put into a subdirectory named after > the test. That is, for DIR/TEST.exp, the outputs are put into > ./outputs/DIR/TEST/. > > Second, this adds an "inotify" mode. If you have the inotifywait > command (part of inotify-tools), you can set the GDB_INOTIFY variable. > This will tell the test suite to watch for changes outside of the > allowed output directories. I think these variables should be documented in the internals manual, in the "Testsuite Parameters" section. -- Pedro Alves