Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI] [ng] tests: do not run very expensive tests by default

[Akim Demaille]

Le 28 juil. 2012 à 13:50, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

> Some tests in the Automake testsuite (especially those testing for bugs
> w.r.t. command-line length limits) require a *long* time to run.  For
> example, the test 'parallel-tests-many.sh' (the most extreme example of
> this issue) takes ~ 11 minutes to execute on a modern, blazingly fast
> multi-core ppc64 system (64 cores at 3.5 GHz each).

Wow, amazing machine...

> So, let's follow the route of GNU coreutils here: declare some tests as
> "expensive", and let them run only if called if the RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
> environment variable is set to "yes".

If this is becoming a de facto standard, it would be nice to see
it documented somewhere (e.g., GCS).