Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with 
> bounded command line length.  Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a

To clarify, it seems that this issue is only a problem with when 
parallel-tests is enabled.  Unfortunately, this option provides the 
nice summary log files (more useful than the parallel execution), so 
it is very useful.

Originally my package's test suite created its own log files but when 
the parallel-tests feature appeared, the test suite was converted to 
rely on Automake's log file mechanism and printed large amounts of 
test to stdout.  Once use of this option was fully entrenched, then 
Automake added the command line length bug.

Bob
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