Re: Splitting some erc tests

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> My intuition tells me to first give those tests some unique name
> pattern, so that we can use a different rule like
>
>     %-par2.log: %-par2.elc %-2.1-part.log %-2.2-part.log
>         cat $*-2.1-part.log $*-2.2-part.log >$@

Hm...

> Generalizing this to `%-parN.log` and writing the rules for
> `%-N.M-part.log` is left as an exercise for the reader.

Darn!

> BTW I don't think we need to know the `-j` arg passed to `make` to
> decide how to split the files: just split them into coarse enough grains
> that splitting them doesn't slow down the -j1 case significantly.

I was hoping for a solution where -j1 didn't split anything -- it'd make
things easier to debug (and debugging ert failures is already hard
enough).

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