Re: [PATCH] tests: use make rules to run tests in parallel (v2)

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>]

On 2012-05-27, at 7:18 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 02:09:20PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> Change the e2fsck/mke2fs/tune2fs/e2image/debugfs regression tests
>> to be driven by Makefile rules instead of by a script loop.  This
>> allows the tests to be run in parallel like a build and reduces
>> testing time significantly.
> 
> The makefile setup you've created has a fatal flaw; it completely
> blows up if you are building with VPATH.  That is, try this with your
> patch: (starting with cwd in the e2fsprogs source tree)
> 
> % mkdir build
> % cd build
> % ../configure
> % make
> % make check
>    <boom>
> 
> Could you take a look at fixing this, please?  I rely pretty
> exclusively on building with VPATH (that way I can have a
> build.static, build.32, etc.) with a single source tree.

The v3 patch was fixed to work with VPATH, along with a few other
changes that I made locally while I've been using this since its
original submission.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger                       Whamcloud, Inc.
Principal Lustre Engineer            http://www.whamcloud.com/