Re: `make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 14:36 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > -  Being part of the make targets, it would enable running them in >    parallel, taking around 1/4th the time it takes now. Up until this morning this could not work because all the tests run in the same directory and they create

Re: `make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

Hi Paul, On 4/3/23 14:26, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 18:14 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> I wonder if you could use the Makefile to run the tests, rather >> than calling a script from a .PHONY target that runs them all the >> time.  Why not run them only once?  You can touch

Re: `make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 18:14 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I wonder if you could use the Makefile to run the tests, rather > than calling a script from a .PHONY target that runs them all the > time.  Why not run them only once?  You can touch empty files > when a test succeeds to make make(1)

Re: `make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

On 4/2/23 16:15, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 16:13 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> I can reproduce it by running `make check`, interrupting it >> at this specific point, and then running again `make check` >> (no -j needed): > > This is a known limitation with the test suite. I

Re: `make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 16:13 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I can reproduce it by running `make check`, interrupting it > at this specific point, and then running again `make check` > (no -j needed): This is a known limitation with the test suite.

Re: `make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

Hi Paul, On 4/2/23 16:04, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 14:52 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> If I build make from source and run the checks in parallel, some >> fail. Is this expected, or is it a bug in the Makefile? > > The test suite is invoked as a single target, so there's

Re: `make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 14:52 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > If I build make from source and run the checks in parallel, some > fail. Is this expected, or is it a bug in the Makefile? The test suite is invoked as a single target, so there's no way that enabling parallelism could impact it.

`make check -j` fails when building GNU Make from source

Hi, If I build make from source and run the checks in parallel, some fail. Is this expected, or is it a bug in the Makefile? Cheers, Alex -- GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5 makeerror-4.4.1-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-t3wj.tar.gz