[postgis-devel] on parallel and recursive make

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:21:00PM +0100, rmrodriguez at carto.com wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:48 PM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> 
> > The recent change allowed to run all tests at once, so we need to
> > build all components at once, and if each of the components is built
> > in parallel, they end up building liblwgeom in parallel.
> 
> And what's the benefit of running all tests at once?

Allows testing "core" tests in presence of "raster" extension
and "raster" tests in presence of "topology". Basically tests
the queries in presence of all extensions, while still allowing
running specific test groups by running "make check" from their
directories.

> The CI builds seem to be taking the same time.

Can we really trust those timings ?

--strk;