Hi all, Both parrot and perl 5 core are now using the environment variable TEST_JOBS to trigger parallel testing in their harnesses, i.e.
make TEST_JOBS=3 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/2008/07/msg47337.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/07/msg139032.html It seems that make does not (portably?) have a way (at least not a good one) to reliably communicate the '-j' option to a target. Yes, that could mean some unfortunate action at a distance. Schwern and I winced about this last week when we were working on parrot's harness, but I don't know or like make well enough to mess with it. If anyone has a better suggestion, they (^-- them) might like to hear it. Otherwise, I'm just writing to announce the birth of a new standard. So, I suppose "one" could theoretically add the following to the compatibility Test/Harness.pm code and thereby enable parallel testing in all previous versions of EU::MM ;-) %harness_options, ($ENV{TEST_JOBS} ? ('-j', $ENV{TEST_JOBS}) : ()) --Eric -- The first rule about Debian is you don't talk about Debian --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
