Re: [PATCH] big test separation POC

On 06/30/2013 02:54 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> Note about the POC patch limitations/questions:
>
> - is deriving a schedule with a piece of shell okay?
> or should perl/python/whatever scripting be better?

I would think all we need are the results, i.e. the schedule files, plus
some Makefile entries for them.

>
> - the big_schedule is assumed "sequential", i.e. one test per line.
> maybe it could/should be parallel?
>
> - I'm not sure of the "parallel_schedule" and "big_schedule"
> file names are the best possible choices.
>
> - I'm really not sure about VPATH stuff.

This should be totally transparent to VPATH builds.

>
> - I do not understand why the makefile specifies $(srcdir) before
> local files in some places.
>

For VPATH builds :-)

> - should the "bigcheck" target be accessible from the project root?
> that is should "make bigcheck" from ../../.. work?
>

Yes, possibly, but it's not terribly important (for example, the
buildfarm does "cd src/test/regress && make <testname>")

cheers

andrew