Changeset 7a72a22 for chapter08

Timestamp:

11/13/2023 04:27:17 PM (11 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.1, 12.1-rc1, 12.2, 12.2-rc1, multilib, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/loongarch-12.2, xry111/mips64el, xry111/multilib, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

798e18b

Parents:

1780e72 (diff), e07c419 (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
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Message:

Merge tag 'xry111/update-20231113' into trunk

There are some suspicious "nptl/tst-robust" test failures in Glibc, but
all other test results are clean. To be diagnosed...

And note that jhalfs needs an update to work with the merged parallelism
changes.

Location:

chapter08

Files:

• automake.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• openssl.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• perl.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/automake.xml

@@ -54 +54 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para> Using the -j4 make option speeds up the tests, even on systems with
-    only one processor, due to internal delays in individual tests.  To test
+    <para>Using four parallel jobs speeds up the tests, even on systems with
+    less logical cores, due to internal delays in individual tests.  To test
     the results, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make -j4 check</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make <replaceable>-j$(($(nproc)&gt;4?$(nproc):4))</replaceable> check</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Replace <replaceable>$((...))</replaceable> with the number of
+    logical cores you want to use if you don't want to use all.</para>
 
     <para>The test t/subobj.sh is known to fail.</para>

chapter08/openssl.xml

@@ -64 +64 @@
     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">HARNESS_JOBS=<replaceable>$(nproc)</replaceable> make test</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>One test, 30-test_afalg.t, is known to fail if the host kernel

chapter08/perl.xml

@@ -112 +112 @@
     <para>To test the results (approximately 11 SBU), issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">TEST_JOBS=$(nproc) make test_harness</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package and clean up:</para>