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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 67dd598..da1f4fc 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -36,12 +36,21 @@ New Features Configuration: -------------- - - 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: |