Re: --create-testdir speed

[Collin Funk]

On 3/1/24 6:13 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On an ASUS UX305CA-FC093T (a notebook) from 2017, I remember that it took
> about 45 minutes. On the Fujitsu ESPRIMO G7012A that I own now, it takes
> about 17 minutes.

That sounds similar to my experience.

> --create-megatestdir with all modules is not realistic: it would consume
> hundreds of GB of disk space and maybe a week of run time.
> 
> --create-megatestdir is useful for a small set of modules, in particular
> for 2 modules, e.g. fnmatch-posix and fnmatch-gnu.

I see, thanks. I think I tried --create-megatestdir a while ago and
gave up because it took along time. I assume there were much less
modules when this was written:

        
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/build-automation.texi#n34

I'm hoping to finish the replacements required for header files done
soon (@NMD@, %reldir%). Once that is done it should be at least
somewhat usable.

Collin