Ken Moffat wrote: > 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.
My system is a 3 GHz core2duo, but I always do the timing for the books in a single thread for consistency and for the log to be coherent. Most builds are in the 1 SBU range or less, but there are some really long ones too. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
