Re: Parrllel Testing

[Tom Browder]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Ben Elliston
<address@hidden> wrote:
...
>  through any current capability of DejaGnu's.  This snippet in
>  gcc/Makefile.in tells you how to do this:
>
>  # The idea is to parallelize testing of multilibs, for example:
>  #   make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4}/{,-nofpu}
>  # will run 3 concurrent sessions of check-gcc, eventually testing
>  # all 10 combinations.  GNU make is required, as is a shell that expands
>  # alternations within braces.

Thanks, Ben.  I saw approx. the same example in the dejagnu manual.

But what about 'make check' for GCC?  Does

  make -j5 check

use 5 subprocesses to run the testsuite?

-Tom