From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:10:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Makefile: add prove and coverage-prove targets
Message-ID: <95d30af1-1940-b4db-99e8-2ccca5210bbd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190129173409.GD13764@szeder.dev>

On 1/29/2019 12:34 PM, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 04:58:27PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> And in the related email discussion [1]:
> 
>   But even though the docs claim it [-j<N>] should be possible,
>   I've been getting "random" test failures when compiled with coverage
>   support, that went away with -j1.  So the tests still run with -j1, as
>   with the first version of the series.
> 
> So it doesn't seem to be that bad after all, because it's not
> "completely breaks" but "random test failures".  Still far from ideal,
> but the original coverage patch is just about 3 weeks short of a
> decade old, so maybe things have improved since then, and it'd be
> worth a try to leave GIT_PROVE_OPTS as is and see what happens.

It would certainly be nice if the build time could be reduced through
parallel test runs. I've kicked off a build using GIT_PROVE_OPTS="-j12"
to see what happens.

Thanks!
-Stolee