Re: texi2html tests are huge

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 02:27:35PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> However, here's my much bigger concern with the tests: it takes too long
> to run!  I doubt (m)any installers would be patient enough to sit
> through make check.

What would be an amount of time you'd find reasonable for tests?  (The
reference being a 2Ghz second, because it is what I have ;-).  For now
it is 2m55 (tp only).

> So I wonder about having  make check  just run a subset of basic tests,
> that everyone can do, and then have check-all to run them all.  

I have done something along that in texi2html/test/Makefile.am.

> Unfortunately, automake doesn't have any support for that.  So maybe
> it's not feasible.  I haven't really thought about it.  Perhaps I should
> raise the point with the automakers.

I simply did a copy and paste of the Makefile portion generated by automake
relevant to tests...  A hack I am quite satisfied with ;-).  Even though
it would be nice to have something in automake.

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Pat