On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:03:37PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > The recommendation is because it takes too much time (over an hour on my > system) and the tests are pretty much valueless. I agree that, other > than time, they cause no harm. As a developer, I do run them (so users > don't need to). > If you have a multiprocessor machine (and if you don't, building anything nowadays is horribly slow), the automake tests can be run in parallel. Still takes quite a long time (towards 20 minutes on my SandyBridge last night, I think), but it helps - at least on those of my machines where the kernel sees 4 CPUs.
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