Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/14/2015 08:29 PM, Peter Johansson wrote: > On 05/15/2015 10:36 AM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: >> And, if I guess correctly, the user can write >> "make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-jN" > > I've never seen TESTSUITEFLAG before, so I don't know. > TESTSUITEFLAGS is the suggested

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Peter Johansson
On 05/15/2015 10:36 AM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: And, if I guess correctly, the user can write "make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-jN" I've never seen TESTSUITEFLAG before, so I don't know. As a nit-noy, don't you mean "processor" and not "cpu"? And

RE: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Arthur Schwarz
The short answer is because I wanna use 8 cpus. There is no sensible way Automake can know how many cpus I wanna use. Just a some idle speculation, Automake knows two things at this point, that the user wants to run a Parallel Test Harness and the Total number of test c

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Peter Johansson
On 05/15/2015 12:24 AM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: 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. $ make check

RE: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Arthur Schwarz
> > > 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. > > $ make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j8 I just searc

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2015-05-13 13:18 -0700, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > There are 3 "normal" ways a make variable can be set (this is not the > > complete picture but it will do): > > > > (1) In the environment (FOO=bar make) > > (2) In the Makefile (FOO=bar in the Makefile) > > (3) on the make command line (make

Re: Setting environment variable for make dist

2015-05-14 Thread Nick Bowler
Hello, On 2015-05-10 12:57 +, Bas Vodde wrote: > I'm trying to change my projects configure.ac so that it sets the > COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 environment variable to influence the make dist > target. > > Background: The COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 avoids having a second top-level > directory in your package

Re: How do you set VERBOSE for parallel testin

2015-05-14 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: > On 05/14/2015 01:20 AM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > >> >> 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