Re: parallel-tests: dependencies between tests

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:05:19PM CEST:
>     manual: Add note about parallelism and tests ordering.
>     
>     * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests):
>     Dependencies between test logs work for tests with known
>     extensions only.  Hint that tests should be prepared to be run
>     in parallel.

I've pushed this patch to next now.

Cheers,
Ralf

> --- a/doc/automake.texi
> +++ b/doc/automake.texi
> @@ -8652,7 +8652,13 @@ foo-execute.log: foo-compile.log
>  @noindent
>  Please note that this ordering ignores the @emph{results} of required
>  tests, thus the test @file{foo-execute.test} is run even if the test
> address@hidden failed or was skipped beforehand.
> address@hidden failed or was skipped beforehand.  Further,
> +please note that specifying such dependencies currently works only for
> +tests that end in one of the suffixes listed in @code{TEST_EXTENSIONS}.
> +
> +Tests without such specified dependencies may be run concurrently with
> +parallel @command{make address@hidden, so be sure they are prepared for
> +concurrent execution.
>  
>  @cindex Unit tests
>  The combination of lazy test execution and correct dependencies between
>