Re: bug#7868: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

Hi Bob. On 12/30/2011 05:10 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >> OK, I hope I've finally managed to partially fix this incredibly annoying bug >> -- I say "partially" because the fix is sadly *for GNU make*. Even more >> sadly, >> the solution is pret

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: OK, I hope I've finally managed to partially fix this incredibly annoying bug -- I say "partially" because the fix is sadly *for GNU make*. Even more sadly, the solution is pretty hacky and somewhat brittle. Still, it should cause no regression w

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

On 12/29/2011 12:26 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 12/28/2011 08:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> Sorry for top-posting. I don't want to lose any text of the original mail. >> >> I totally forgot that I had applied Ralf's patch to my 1.11.1 install. Now >> that I have updated GraphicsMagick to

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

On 12/28/2011 08:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Sorry for top-posting. I don't want to lose any text of the original mail. > > I totally forgot that I had applied Ralf's patch to my 1.11.1 install. Now > that I have updated GraphicsMagick to using Automake 1.11.2, the patch is no > longer presen

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

es for revert commit messages; I'm leaning this on the way GCC does it. Cheers, and sorry, Ralf Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue." This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835, because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.

Re: [RFC] parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue

JFTR: this patch is flawed :-( See: (and following messages) for an explanation. Sorry for the noise, Stefano

[RFC] parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue (was: Re: bug#7868: splitting up test suites)

gt; > Hmmm... while this feature might be worth having even indipendently > from the issue at hand (but see below for small nits), I still think > that in the long run it would be nicer to transparently work around > such command-line length issues in the test driver, if possible. Do >

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

han the command-line length limit allows. > parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. > > * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new > substitution %MAKEFILE%. > (generate_makefile): Adjust. > * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

Hi Ralf. On Friday 17 September 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:23:11AM CEST: > > > > diff --git a/lib/am/check.am b/lib/am/check.am > > > > index c612b22..b79201f 100644 > > > > --- a/li

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:23:11AM CEST: > > diff --git a/lib/am/check.am b/lib/am/check.am > > index c612b22..b79201f 100644 > > --- a/lib/am/check.am > > +++ b/lib/am/check.am > > @@ -236,10 +236,10 @@ check-TESTS: > > ## we rely on .PHONY to work portably. > > @tes

Re: parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.

[dropping bug-autom...@gnu.org] Hi Ralf. That was a nice fix! Just a minor nit, though... > > [CUT] > parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. > > [CUT] > diff --git a/lib/am/check.am b/lib/am/check.am > index c612b22..b79201f 100644 > --- a/lib/am

parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. (was: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?)

atch to maint to avoid the issue. Unfortunately, the same technique will not work for recheck and recheck-html. So no rechecking unless the number of failures is lower than the command-line length limit allows. Thanks, Ralf parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.