Re: builds are getting slower?

[Michael Albinus]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 'make check' is so slow that I normally don't run it these days. We should
>> do what coreutils does, and run the expensive tests only if
>> RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes is in the environment. coreutils has three
>> categories of expensiveness, but Emacs could probably get by with two for
>> now.
>
> That sounds like a great idea.  I usually define three too: sanity tests,
> regular tests, extensive tests.

I'll would declare the following tests as extensive: autorevert-tests.el,
dbus-tests.el, filenotify-tests.el, tramp-tests.el.

All of them use events and timers, and they take their time. And all of
them written by me :-(

Another idea: those tests could check environment variable
RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS. If existing, they would run all tests, otherwise
they would run just a short version of them.

Best regards, Michael.