Re: 'make --jobs all', 'make --jobs test', and concurrency

Hi David,

On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:15:14 -0800
David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote:

> makemaker:
>=20
> I have a computer with a multi-core processor, Debian 7, and Perl=20
> 5.14.2.  'make --jobs all' seems to run concurrently, but 'make --jobs=20
> test' seems to be single-threaded.  Is there a way to run tests=20
> concurrently?
>=20

make test is a single make target so make -j or make --jobs won't help here.
What might help is the HARNESS_OPTIONS environment variable:

HARNESS_OPTIONS=3D"j9" make test

See "perldoc Test::Harness":

https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Harness

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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