Solaris package

[Martin Geisler]

"rupert.thurner" <rupert.thurner at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 31, 2:03 pm, Martin Geisler <m... at lazybytes.net> wrote:
>> "rupert.thurner" <rupert.thur... at gmail.com> writes:
>> > tried it on our test box, but there i got even more failures. i guess
>> > i need to run this on a fresh box. is there any possibility to make
>> > the test work multithreaded, because solaris hardware is very slow,
>> > but has a lot of hardware threads.
>>
>> See the -j flag to run-tests.py.
>
> thanks, that works! do you have a recipe for the makefile as well?
> "gmake -j 50 tests" does not work, and i am not enough makefile aware
> to convince it to pass the parameter into run-tests. cc'ing trygve, as
> he might know a solution as our packaging expert.

Sure, set the TESTFLAGS variable. I use

  make tests TESTFLAGS="-j 15"

on a quad-core system to have all CPU cores maxed out.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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