parallel testsuite execution (was: multiple cpu's)

2007-08-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Benoit, * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:59:26PM CEST: > > http://www.tsunanet.net/~tsuna/check.mk Can you rid it of nonportable constructs, and more importantly, can it be included in Automake (copyright transfered to the FSF etc.)? Hmm, let's see. Most suffix rules shou

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-20 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:46:20PM CEST: On a related note, it'd sure be nice if "make -j4 check" would run its t

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> Hello Jim, >> >> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:46:20PM CEST: >>> >>> On a related note, it'd sure be nice if "make -j4 check" would run >>> its >>> tests in parallel. Especially

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-20 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:46:20PM CEST: On a related note, it'd sure be nice if "make -j4 check" would run its tests in parallel. Especially on an SMP system, and/or when some tests sleep for a few (inte

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:46:20PM CEST: > > On a related note, it'd sure be nice if "make -j4 check" would run its > tests in parallel. Especially on an SMP system, and/or when some > tests sleep for a few (interminable :-) seconds. > > Of course, this might not

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> OK, so it generates Makefile's that are fully capable of handling the -j >> switch to make? > > Mostly. Problems should be reported, please include a copy of the make > output of the failed build. Hi Ralf, On a related note, it'd sure be nice if

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bob, * Bob Rossi wrote on Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:23:36PM CEST: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:14:28PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Bob Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Can automake take advantage of multiple cpu's? > > > > This

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-10 Thread Bob Rossi
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:14:28PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Bob Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can automake take advantage of multiple cpu's? > > This has nothing to do with automake. Just use the appropriate switch > for make to enable parallel

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
Bob Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can automake take advantage of multiple cpu's? This has nothing to do with automake. Just use the appropriate switch for make to enable parallel execution. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH,

multiple cpu's

2007-08-10 Thread Bob Rossi
Hi, Can automake take advantage of multiple cpu's? I search the online documentation for both cpu and processor, and I don't get a result. Thanks, Bob Rossi