* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:05:19PM CEST:
> manual: Add note about parallelism and tests ordering.
>
> * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests):
> Dependencies between test logs work for tests with known
> extensions only. Hint that tests should be prepared to be run
> in parallel.
I've pushed this patch to next now.
Cheers,
Ralf
> --- a/doc/automake.texi
> +++ b/doc/automake.texi
> @@ -8652,7 +8652,13 @@ foo-execute.log: foo-compile.log
> @noindent
> Please note that this ordering ignores the @emph{results} of required
> tests, thus the test @file{foo-execute.test} is run even if the test
> -...@file{foo-compile.test} failed or was skipped beforehand.
> +...@file{foo-compile.test} failed or was skipped beforehand. Further,
> +please note that specifying such dependencies currently works only for
> +tests that end in one of the suffixes listed in @code{TEST_EXTENSIONS}.
> +
> +Tests without such specified dependencies may be run concurrently with
> +parallel @command{make -...@var{n}}, so be sure they are prepared for
> +concurrent execution.
>
> @cindex Unit tests
> The combination of lazy test execution and correct dependencies between
>
