[RFC] parallelizing cygport test

ASSI Stromeko@nexgo.de
Mon Jul 24 15:50:30 GMT 2023


ASSI via Cygwin-apps writes:
> I've recently updated a few packages that do a serious amount of
> compilation during test and it became painfully obvious that cygtest
> does not run make with the "-j" option nor does it currently offer an
> option to change that.
>
> Given the brittleness of some test suites it might be prudent to keep
> the default "serial" for a while and in any case not confound it with
> the option of doing the build in parallel.  So the suggestion is to add
> a variable MAKETESTOPTS following along MAKEOPTS example to be used in
> cygport files.  I would also suggest to add a command-line option "-jt"
> / "--jobs-test" or some other suitable name plus a configuration option
> for cygportrc that when set causes cygport to populate MAKETESTOPTS with
> the same default as MAKEOPTS and otherwise leave it empty (keep the
> current default of "serial" make).

POC:
https://repo.or.cz/cygport/rpm-style.git/commitdiff/3756290fd1de63e0514aa71eaca62569eb3a782a


Regards,
Achim.
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