On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 18:32 +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote: > > I think 'make -j' is the way to go, since it lets the user easily > > control the amount of parallelism. > > As I said before, make -j is a complete non-starter for me, as it restricts > the paralelism to a single machine and thus would actually reduce the > parallelism from what I have now with multilibs.
Would it work for you to have a check-init target to set up site.exp and whatever else might be needed, a check-fini target to wrap up the results, and multiple targets that you can invoke separately in between those? A top-level "make check" would do the start-up stuff, run lots of check targets in parallel, and then do the wrap-up at the end, perhaps after running the resource hogs sequentially. Janis
