On 1/16/13 2:38 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 16/01/2013 02:58, Stuart Marks wrote:
The problem is that there is some information encoded in the makefile targets
that would be lost if that were done. It's not just the lists of directories.
Some of the targets run the tests in othervm mode, and some in agentvm mode.
I think the execution mode should be removed from the Makefile. For areas where
the tests can't run in agentvm mode then the right thing is to add the
directories to the othervm.dirs property (TEST.ROOT or TEST.properties). I
think we have most of them there already.
Yes, I think this is a reasonable thing for somebody (who?) to do.
There are other cleanups possible as well. I could imagine that the directories
listed for each target could be extracted into make variables, and then other
makefile logic could be written that simply lists the directories, or runs
jtreg over all the directories in a single run.
These would probably go a long way to simplifying Amy's and Balchandra's lives.
s'marks
