On 12/23/2014 11:11 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 12/22/2014 10:41 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 12/22/14 7:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Currently the buildfarm animal crake (my development instance) is
>>> running the bin check, but not any other animal. These tests still take
>>> for too long, not least because each set of tests requires a separate
>>> install.
>> You can avoid that by using make installcheck.
>
>
> Not working too well:
>
> make -C pg_ctl installcheck
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/bf/bfr/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/bin/pg_ctl'
> cd /home/bf/bfr/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl &&
> TESTDIR='/home/bf/bfr/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/bin/pg_ctl'
> PATH="/home/bf/bfr/root/HEAD/inst/bin:$PATH" PGPORT='65648' prove -I
> /home/bf/bfr/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/perl/ --verbose
> t/*.pl
> Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"top_builddir"} in concatenation (.)
> or string at t/001_start_stop.pl line 17.
> file not found: /src/test/regress/pg_regress at
> /home/bf/bfr/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/test/perl/TestLib.pm
> line 142.
>
> This was invoked like this:
>
> cd $pgsql/src/bin && make NO_LOCALE=1 installcheck
>
> Note that it's a vpath build.
>
>
The attached patch seems to fix this. However, running installcheck also
makes very little difference to the time. These checks still take around
100 seconds on my machine, including around 60 for the script tests.
That seems ridiculously long, when the whole core regression suite takes
23 seconds.
cheers
andrew
