Is 6.3 ready for release?

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 15:18:08 MDT 2007


On 8/6/07, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:04:48PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > On 8/6/07, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:06:55PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > A couple things I figured out about the vim tests. First, the test
> > > > hang was due to bad make dependencies when running in parallel.
> > >
> > >  The package itself is set up to run in parallel ?  I don't see
> > > that.
> >
> > No, I run with MAKEFLAGS=-j3. This breaks when Makefiles don't have
> > well constructed dependencies. In the case of vim's tests, it seems
> > that only one test can be active at a time or they may hang.
> >
>  OK, but that doesn't explain why it fails for me :)

Nope. But the second part I wrote might help. For example:

make -j1 test &> test.log
for t in src/testdir/*.failed; do
    echo ${t%.failed} failed
    cat -t $t
done >> test.log

--
Dan



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