[FYI] {parallel-tests-maint} docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore

2011-05-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
The parallel-tests driver has now been used quite extensively by a fair number of real-world applications (e.g., GNU coreutils, GNU libtool, GNU grep, and various packages using Gnulib), and thus exposed to adequate on-field testing. So there's no point in declaring it experimental anymore (which

[FYI] {parallel-tests-maint} check: document and test $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) overriding

2011-05-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Explain how and why TEST_SUITE_LOG can be overridden at runtime. * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-1.test: New test, check that the newly documented idiom and similar usages are truly supported. * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-2.test: L

[FYI] New public branch 'parallal-tests-maint'

2011-05-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
I've created a new public branch 'parallal-tests-maint', which is meant for small improvements (mostly in testing/documentation) to the Automake parallal-tests functionality. It is meant to be merged to maint eventually, but before doing that merge I'd like to have the new commits properly reviewe