[Monotone-devel] Parallel test execution (Was: Re: [Monotone-debian] Bug#623734: monotone: FTBFS: test suite timeout)

[Thomas Keller]

Am 27.04.2011 10:19, schrieb Stephen Leake:
> Since it only happens with -jn, this is pretty clearly a bug in make.
> While we could try to find a work-around, I don't see the point.

Lets have a look at our own sources at first. The job server code is in
test/src/unix/tester-plaf.cc, Tim probably has the best expertise in
this area since Zack, who originally wrote most of the code, vanished.

> Just disable parallel builds in the Debian package, and in any other
> official distribution where it is an issue.

This is an intermediate solution, yes. But given the fact that our test
suite literally runs ages and grows from release to release, we should
really tackle down this problem.

Thomas.

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