Re: Should we use make -k on the buildfarm?

On lör, 2010-11-06 at 14:45 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Here's the list of tests from a recent run, leaving out stopping and
> starting the installed postmaster, and locale specifiers:
>
> SCM-checkout
> configure
> make
> check
> make-contrib
> make-install
> install-contrib
> initdb
> install-check
> pl-install-check
> contrib-install-check
> ecpg-check
>
> Currently, the implied dependency list is in this order. We could have
> "make-contrib" depend only on "make" rather than "check",
> "pl-install-check" and "contrib-install-check" depend on "initdb",
> and "ecpg-check" depend on "make" rather than anything that comes
> after. I think that's about the limit of what we could sensibly relax

In principle you could get this down to

SCM-checkout
configure
make -k world
make -k check-world # target doesn't exist yet
make -k install-world
initdb
make -k installcheck-world

That way you don't have to update the buildfarm code every time a new
test suite is added.