Re: RFC: parallelize "make check"

Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-26T06:53:27Z

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:21:43 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Eli> It would be good to mention this possibility in README, IMO.
>
> Please review.

Thanks. A couple of comments:

. You mention RUNTESTFLAGS that is not otherwise documented in
README. I understand that you mention it (and the solution via
setting RUNTESTFLAGS) as ``gotcha'' for those who use this variable
for reasons unrelated to -j. If so, I would suggest to make it an
explicit note, something like this (the parens are deliberate):

(Note that setting `RUNTESTFLAGS' then, by default, the tests will
be run serially even under -j. You can override this and force a
parallel run ...)

. I think we should say that using -j significantly cuts the time for
running the test suite. Otherwise, the reader would not
necessarily understand why she would like to use -j.