tests: pass -jN from Make to the test suite

I am sooooo tired of typing "make -j5 TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j5"...
Should have done this years ago.

* cfg.mk (TESTSUITEFLAGS): here.
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Akim Demaille
2019-09-14 10:14:32 +02:00
parent a3e201de02
commit 6c7b2dfe51
2 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ processes tabs in its input.
* Working from the repository
These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources. These
requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
** Requirements
@@ -201,7 +201,6 @@ added the "[-Wother]" part to all the warnings). Part of the update can be
done with a crude tool: tests/update-test. Read it for more information.
** TESTSUITEFLAGS
To run just the testsuite (not the tests related to the examples), run `make
check-local`.
@@ -212,6 +211,10 @@ can be sped up in two ways:
Using -j, in a make-like fashion, for example:
$ make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='-j8'
Actually, when using GNU Make, TESTSUITEFLAGS defaults to the -jN passed to
it, so you may simply run
$ make check-local -j8
Running only the tests of a certain category, as specified in the AT files
with AT_KEYWORDS([[category]]). Categories include:
- c++, for c++ parsers
@@ -224,6 +227,7 @@ To run a specific set of tests, use -k (for "keyword"). For example:
$ make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k c++'
Both can be combined.
$ make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='-j8 -k c++'
** Typical errors
If the test suite shows failures such as the following one

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@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ regen: _version
manual_title = The Yacc-compatible Parser Generator
gendocs_options_ = -I $(abs_top_srcdir)/doc -I $(abs_top_builddir)/doc
# By default, propagate -j from make to Bison's test suite.
TESTSUITEFLAGS = $(filter -j%,$(MAKEFLAGS))
# It's useful to run maintainer-check* targets during development, but we
# don't want to wait on a recompile because of an update to $(VERSION). Thus,
# override the _is-dist-target from GNUmakefile so that maintainer-check*