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Re: make tests parallel

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# from Nicholas Clark
# on Wednesday 06 August 2008 02:31:

>I had hoped that it would be possible to make a stab at parsing the
> command line options to make to try to automatically run the same
> number of tests as make jobs, but, for GNU make:
>
>$ make -j 6 foo
>perl -e 'print "$_\n" foreach @ARGV' --  --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j
>--jobserver-fds=3,4
>-j

What does your foo target look like?

>which I guess makes sense - rather than having subordinate makes also
> run 6 (or 3) jobs, it ensures that the total number of jobs is no
> more than the value given to the top level command line -j flag.

Do subordinate makes need to be involved?   I've never had a reason to 
know or like make, so perhaps I'm incorrectly assuming that one harness 
can be handed a list of tests?  Is the -j flag going to cause make to 
run amuck in the subdirectories?

--Eric
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