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| author | Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> | 2019-05-06 04:44:09 +0000 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2019-05-07 06:55:31 -0300 |
| commit | eeff4319960d88e60c202dac4047913262d67d85 (patch) | |
| tree | 239bd8c8de796f758fa50b0952c2f967011b98d8 /test/README | |
| parent | 908d930d221413633ab7541f97eb7cf07bfc4a91 (diff) | |
tests: environment variable to specify that tests should be serialized
If NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE is non-null all tests will be run in series,
rather than in parallel.
Diffstat (limited to 'test/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | test/README | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index b378c3ff..3f54af58 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ these system tools. Most often the tests are written, reviewed and tested on Linux system so such portability issues arise from time to time. - Running Tests ------------- The easiest way to run tests is to say "make test", (or simply run the @@ -105,9 +104,14 @@ to with emacs, e.g. make test TEST_CC=gcc TEST_CFLAGS="-g -O2" +Parallel Execution +------------------ +If either the moreutils or GNU "parallel" utility is available all +tests will be run in parallel. If the NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE variable +is non-null all tests will be executed sequentially. + Quiet Execution --------------- - Normally, when new script starts and when test PASSes you get a message printed on screen. This printing can be disabled by setting the NOTMUCH_TEST_QUIET variable to a non-null value. Message on test |