[Python-Dev] Trimming "make quicktest"

[Michael Foord]

On 23/03/2011 18:42, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:29:22 -0400
> David Bolen<db3l.net at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Nick Coghlan<ncoghlan at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net>  wrote:
>>>> You mean in the "-j" option itself or in "make test"?
>>> I was actually suggesting that -j be the *default* in regrtest itself,
>>> with an option to turn it off or force a particular number of
>>> processes.
>> Just one request - if there are changes in this direction (e.g.,
>> trying to make regrtest use all cores by default), please include the
>> ability to configure/override this for individual builders (or at
>> least slaves) since otherwise I won't be able to disable it.
> I think "-j" should remain a manual setting. I've posted a patch to
> enable it automatically in "make test" for convenience, but it would
> be enabled for neither "-m test" nor "make buildbottest".

-j doesn't pass on several of the flags to its subprocesses (e.g. 
warning settings I believe), so it shouldn't be the default. It's still 
very useful though.

All the best,

Michael
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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