>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> Using this script and some minor gcc/Makefile.in hacks, I ran the entire Ben> testsuite in 30% of the current time for a parallel-languages make Ben> check. Awesome. Ben> So, I guess my question is: what now? What do people feel would be Ben> required to make this usable? I assume that the most pressing thing Ben> would be to have the build system fold the various .log and .sum files Ben> together so that they look like they were run as a whole. Yeah, this seems necessary. Ideally the order ought to be stable, too. Ben> Another problem is that this is a bit of guesswork. Maybe it would be Ben> better to drive this from make -j, so that make takes care of the Ben> scheduling (and we can push the longer tests to the front of the Ben> dependency list, as we do to improve parallel builds now). I think 'make -j' is the way to go, since it lets the user easily control the amount of parallelism. I often run a single set of tests by passing RUNTESTFLAGS=whatever.exp. I think this sort of functionality ought to remain available somehow. Tom
