On 22 Mar 2018, at 17:50, David Chisnall <gnus...@theravensnest.org> wrote:
> 
> On 22 Mar 2018, at 17:29, Richard Frith-Macdonald 
> <richard.frith-macdon...@theengagehub.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 22 Mar 2018, at 17:00, Richard Frith-Macdonald 
>>> <richard.frith-macdon...@theengagehub.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In any case, gnustep-tests is a fairly small shell script ...  if really 
>>> stuck you could just hack a copy of it to add the 'messages=yes'
>> 
>> I looked, and it turned out to be a tiny alteration to run make with 
>> 'messages=yes' when gnustep-tests is invoked with the --verbose option, so I 
>> did that;  it seems to me the correct behavior for verbose mode.
> 
> Thanks, I’m debugging the new ABI and so I need to see the exact compiler 
> invocation to fix compiler bugs.  I am now in a state where I have as many 
> -base tests passing with the new ABI as with the old (just in time to head 
> out to a wine tasting in college!), up from about 2,000 more failures this 
> morning.  I have only one big change and a few small ones as old ones left to 
> do, and then a lot of code cleanup and finish documenting the ABI.  
> 
> -base is broken in all sorts of exciting ways if extended type encodings leak 
> into places that expect traditional ones (I have fixes for most of them, but 
> fixing the runtime to not leak them is probably better!).

P.S. It would still be *very* useful to be able to properly run the tests in 
parallel.  I am developing on a 32-core machine and running the GNUstep tests 
takes several minutes with most of the cores idle during that time.  

David


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