Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> Hello Jim, >> >> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:46:20PM CEST: >>> >>> On a related note, it'd sure be nice if "make -j4 check" would run >>> its >>> tests in parallel. Especially on an SMP system, and/or when some >>> tests sleep for a few (interminable :-) seconds. >>> >>> Of course, this might not be trivial, especially trying to keep >>> the resulting Makefile.in portable. However, even if it means >>> I'd need to use a special option to generate a GNU-make-only >>> Makefile.in, I'd happily use the result for day to day work. >> >> IIRC, Akim Demaille posted a patch a while ago on an automake list for >> this, GNU make-specific. I don't recall how much work was left to do, >> but on my list it's a bit on the far end. >> > > Yep: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-02/msg00015.html > The whole idea is to have one input file per test (say a .chk file) > that produces a .log file. We can then benefit from the parallelism > of make with implicit rules (exactly like for .c -> .o). > > The file has slightly evolved since then but I can post an updated > version if someone is interested.
That'd be great. FYI, in testing this, I've been using check.mk from vaucanson-trunk. Is that what you mean?
