On 05/14/2015 01:20 AM, Arthur Schwarz wrote:
My question is is this the only way to use VERBOSE? The Automake
Manual seems to say that VERBOSE is a variable, not a make argument.
And, as a variable, if the user (you) can change it's value then the
appropriate way to do it is either: env VERBOSE=1 make -e check or
VERBOSE=1; export VERBOSE; make -e check
well I use GNU make for which 'make VERBOSE=1' works as well.
Have you tried "make check -j8 VERBOSE"? If this works then it means that
the existence of VERBOSE is sufficient to turn the option on. This is a
possible interpretation of 15.2.3 Parallel Test Harness "If the variable
'VERBOSE' is set, this file is output after the summary."
And as a simple question, why are you using "make -j8"? Shouldn't this be
part of the automake generated test code?
The short answer is because I wanna use 8 cpus. There is no sensible way
Automake can know how many cpus I wanna use.
Parallel here means that the tests will run in parallel. The old serial
test-suite had a rule with something like this
check: all
for t in $(TESTS); do $(SHELL) $$t; done
which is not parallel and the run command $(SHELL) $$t depended on the
labguage etc; can't remember the details.
Cheers,
Peter
