Stefano Lattarini wrote: > First, a smaller nit: > > -check-TESTS: $(TESTS) > +AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += buildtest runtest > + > +buildtest-TESTS: $(TESTS) > + > +check-TESTS: buildtest-TESTS > + $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) runtest-TESTS > + > +runtest-TESTS: > @failed=0; all=0; xfail=0; xpass=0; skip=0; \ > > With this, you force an extra recursive make invocation over every > user. Now that we are suggesting to move towards non-recursive make > setups, this kind of changes is deprecated, and definitely unfit for > the Automake's core.
I am not aware of another way to specify sequential dependencies to a target. We could set runtest-TESTS as a second dependency for check-TESTS, but that would break with "make -j". Do you have a suggestion? > In addition, and more to the point, the serial testsuite driver is > deprecated, and kept in maintenance-mode only. If you want your > change to be integrated into Automake, I suggest you aim for the > parallel testsuite. But I'm not sure that the semantic you want > will be as easy to implement there as it was for the serial tests. Unfortunately, I need this split in the serial driver too. I am working on packaging the test suites of all packages in a whole linux distribution, a significant percentage of which use the serial testsuite driver. Rewriting all test suites to use the parallel driver is just not feasible. -- Björn
