On 11/20/2012 04:06 PM, Björn Stenberg wrote: > 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. > Me neither. In Automake-NG, we play some dirty tricks to avoid extra recursions, but they makes heavy use of GNUmake-specific features.
> We could set runtest-TESTS as a second dependency for check-TESTS, > but that would break with "make -j". > Which is quite unacceptable. > Do you have a suggestion? > Nothing new, no. >> 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. > Ah, OK. > Rewriting all test suites to use the parallel driver is just not > feasible. > I absolutely agree. I fear your best course of action for the moment is to find a way to integrate the trick I already suggested (or more advanced versions of it, if yu come up with them) in your build setup. Regards, Stefano
