Re: gnulib-tool: Ensure that long-running tests are executed last

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 12:13:12AM CEST:
>   - I was assuming a sequential execution (since this is the default with
>     "make") and the goal of maximizing the information that is available
>     within a short time after starting the test.

Your goal is worthy but how do you know whether it's those tests you
listed first that are important to the user?

If you're out to maximize the amount of information available after a
short time, I suggest you look into the parallel-tests test driver of
Automake >= 1.11 which allows you to only rerun tests whose results are
out of date.  That way, you minimize the total number of tests that are
rerun, which is typically what helps the edit-compile-test cycle most.
Of course that requires proper dependencies to be in place.

Cheers,
Ralf