Re: [PATCH] big test separation POC

On 06/30/2013 02:54 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> Note about the POC patch limitations/questions:
>
>  - is deriving a schedule with a piece of shell okay?
>    or should perl/python/whatever scripting be better?


I would think all we need are the results, i.e. the schedule files, plus 
some Makefile entries for them.


>
>  - the big_schedule is assumed "sequential", i.e. one test per line.
>    maybe it could/should be parallel?
>
>  - I'm not sure of the "parallel_schedule" and "big_schedule"
>    file names are the best possible choices.
>
>  - I'm really not sure about VPATH stuff.


This should be totally transparent to VPATH builds.


>
>  - I do not understand why the makefile specifies $(srcdir) before
>    local files in some places.
>

For VPATH builds :-)

>  - should the "bigcheck" target be accessible from the project root?
>    that is should "make bigcheck" from ../../.. work?
>


Yes, possibly, but it's not terribly important (for example, the 
buildfarm does "cd src/test/regress && make <testname>")

cheers

andrew