On 1/29/2019 12:34 PM, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 04:58:27PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > And in the related email discussion [1]: > > But even though the docs claim it [-j<N>] should be possible, > I've been getting "random" test failures when compiled with coverage > support, that went away with -j1. So the tests still run with -j1, as > with the first version of the series. > > So it doesn't seem to be that bad after all, because it's not > "completely breaks" but "random test failures". Still far from ideal, > but the original coverage patch is just about 3 weeks short of a > decade old, so maybe things have improved since then, and it'd be > worth a try to leave GIT_PROVE_OPTS as is and see what happens. It would certainly be nice if the build time could be reduced through parallel test runs. I've kicked off a build using GIT_PROVE_OPTS="-j12" to see what happens. Thanks! -Stolee
