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authorJames Laird <jlaird@hdfgroup.org>2005-08-03 17:22:03 (GMT)
committerJames Laird <jlaird@hdfgroup.org>2005-08-03 17:22:03 (GMT)
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[svn-r11190] Purpose:
Updated RELEASE.txt Description: Added/updated recent makefiles changes (test logs, make check-clean) in RELEASE.txt Platforms tested: Textual change only Misc. update:
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@@ -36,12 +36,21 @@ New Features
Configuration:
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- - When make is invoked in parallel (using -j), sequential tests
- are now executed simultaneously. This should make them execute
- more quickly on some machines.
- Also, when tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe file.
+ - Test execution has changed in a number of ways:
+ When make is invoked in parallel (using -j), sequential tests
+ are now executed as parallel make targets. This should make them
+ finish more quickly on machines with multiple processors.
+ Since test output is garbled when they execute in parallel,
+ tests now dump their output to foo.log files and foo.logsh files
+ (for test scripts). These logs are printed to the screen only
+ when a test fails or when all tests in the current directory have
+ completed successfully.
+ When tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe or foo.chksh file.
This prevents the test from executing again until the test or
main library changes.
+ All files generated by tests (*.chkexe, *.log, and any *.h5 files
+ created) can be removed by invoking 'make check-clean'.
+ -JML 2005/08/03
- On windows, all.zip is deprecated. users should
read INSTALL_Windows.txt to know the details.
Reasons to deprecate all.zip: