On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.11 subdir-objects parallel-tests color-tests
dist-bzip2 dist-lzma foreign
Does that error go away if you remove the parallel-tests option?
I don't know. Little changes like that to make a simple test would
likely consume six hours time. The system is remote, rather slow,
and I use CVS commit/checkout to communicate changes to it. It is not
important that this issue be fixed right away, but it has implications
for the future.
You should be able to work around it by splitting tests in pieces,
and running things piecewise only for now; assuming the *_TESTS
variables are all nonempty:
TESTS = $(WAND_TESTS) $(UTILITIES_TESTS) ...
check-wand:
$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS \
TESTS='$(WAND_TESTS)' TEST_SUITE_LOG=test-suite-wand.log
check-utilities:
...
I agree that it's a bit of a kludge (and I haven't tested it yet).
Are you saying that the user would then need to explicitly invoke
'check-wand' or is it possible to create a 'check' dependency so that
all of these would be implicitly invoked in turn? It looks like there
would be a bunch of mini-test reports and so the user is likely to
miss most of the reports since they would have scrolled on by. I only
expect the user to see whatever residue is left on his terminal when
the tests have completed. There is also the problem that a single
failed test early on would prevent all the rest of the test groups
from completing and if the error is intentionally ignored, then all
errors will be ignored.
It is likely that the number of tests will quadruple over time since
currently the tests are the bare minimum (only 785 tests) for my
software. I don't mind explicitly splitting internally if there is
still a way for the user to do the standard 'make check' and 'make
distcheck' (with reliable ultimate failure on test fail) and see a
total report for all of the tests at the end.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
