Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I now have parallel tests working in GraphicsMagick (verified under Solaris, FreeBSD, and OS-X Leopard) except that under MinGW (TDM version) 'make check' ends with: make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.log', needed by `test-suite.log'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bfriesen/mingw/G

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: You probably need to do this instead: TEST_EXTENSIONS = .sh utilities/tests/montage.log : \ utilities/tests/addnoise.log \ utilities/tests/affine.log \ utilities/tests/annotate.log \ ... as test dependencies currently

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:54:02AM CEST: > On Thu, 21 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> 6. Dependencies between Tests >> = >> >> If there are dependencies between your tests, e.g., foo.test needs to be >> run before baz.chk can be run

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: 6. Dependencies between Tests = If there are dependencies between your tests, e.g., foo.test needs to be run before baz.chk can be run, then, with TEST_EXTENSIONS set as above, you can now go ahead and specify them as depen

Re: The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello once again, > > allow me to expand upon this topic a bit more.  In this message, I will > not try to be fair towards the different test suite frameworks; instead, > I'll bluntly praise the new parallel-tests driver.  :-) > >> Automake

The New parallel-tests Framework (was: Various testsuites)

2009-05-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello once again, allow me to expand upon this topic a bit more. In this message, I will not try to be fair towards the different test suite frameworks; instead, I'll bluntly praise the new parallel-tests driver. :-) > Automake TESTS support, as of version 1.11, consists of two different > test

Re: Various testsuites

2009-05-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * NightStrike wrote on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 09:41:27PM CEST: > What's the difference between using this: > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Using-Autotest > > and this: > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Tests > > ? Autotest is a generate

Various testsuites

2009-05-18 Thread NightStrike
What's the difference between using this: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Using-Autotest and this: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Tests ? Which is better to use? Which will be maintained, and more future-proof? Why is there duplication betwe