Re: some issues in the latest Autoconf

[Eric Blake]

Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> writes:

> > 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'

Agreed, and I do this too.  The problem here is that until one is familiar with 
what the testsuite does, it is easy to not know which tests will be relevant to 
a particular patch.

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

That's where I've been falling short lately.  I'll do better :)

-- 
Eric Blake