Commit bb9e2e6271adc481fc2b522ed06dd52f18e0ed45
2012-01-17T13:46:11
tap: some makes in parallel mode unconditionally serialize output Some make implementations (among them, FreeBSD make, NetBSD make, and Solaris Distributed Make), when run in parallel mode, serialize the output from their targets' recipes unconditionally. This has the nasty side effect that the user won't see the partial results of a TAP test until the test has terminated. This is not something our TAP driver script can work around unfortunately; in fact, the driver is sending out its output progressively and "in sync" with test execution -- it is make that is stowing such output away instead of presenting it to the user as soon as it gets it. So we content ourself with working around the issue in our testsuite, to at least avoid failures we could do nothing to prevent. * tests/tap-realtime.test: Skip this test if the make program used is a non-GNU make running in parallel mode. And if Sun dmake is being used, try to force it to run in serial mode, by exporting the 'DMAKE_MODE' environment variable to "serial".