Re: some issues in the latest Autoconf

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:19:03PM CEST:
> 
> And this thread is all the more reason why I'm pleased with Paolo's
> attempts to speed up autotest - I've been slacking running the entire
> suite for some of my recent patches, due to the several hours that it
> takes on cygwin; [...]

FWIW, when writing a patch, I usually do
  make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-l | less

and pick out likely candidates for failures, and run only those:
  make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k AS_HELP_STRING -k autotest'

That does not take so long.  I run the whole suite at most when I'm done
with a patch.

Cheers,
Ralf