* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST: > Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be included > by the recursive make.
Bob, can you try out this patch? Thanks, Ralf 2010-09-06 Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on w32 (MSYS). Report by Bob Friesenhahn. diff --git a/lib/am/check.am b/lib/am/check.am index c612b22..39ae9d2 100644 --- a/lib/am/check.am +++ b/lib/am/check.am @@ -236,10 +236,12 @@ check-TESTS: ## we rely on .PHONY to work portably. @test -z "$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)" || rm -f $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) @list='$(TEST_LOGS)'; \ - list=`for f in $$list; do \ - test .log = $$f || echo $$f; \ - done | tr '\012\015' ' '`; \ - $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) TEST_LOGS="$$list" + { echo "TEST_LOGS = "; \ + for f in $$list; do \ + test .log = $$f || echo $$f; \ + done; \ + } | { tr '\012\015' ' '; echo; } \ + | $(MAKE) -f Makefile -f - $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += check
