On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Jerry Gay wrote:
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> the configure tests take too much time to run, and should be sped up
> by whatever means necessary so as to take a much smaller percentage of
> the overall time for the test suite. from the looks of it, there's a
> lot of setup and teardown in each step test file that requires the
> same code to be repeated.
To give some sense of scale: On my aging-but-busy Solaris 8/SPARC system,
the configure tests take about 15 minutes to run, and account for about
1/4 of the total run time for 'make test'.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
