Re: Add support for PROVE_FLAGS and PROVE_TESTS in MSVC scripts

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:11 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 08:59:30PM +0100, Juan José Santamaría Flecha
> wrote:
> > This seems to me as if setting the variables in the shell is the proposed
> > way to do so. In the previous doc point we do the same with the
> buildenv.pl
> > file. It looks inconsistent, as if it was one way or the other, when it
> > could be either.
>
> Okay, that makes sense. PROVE_TESTS is a runtime-only dependency so
> my guess is that most people would set that directly on the command
> prompt like I do, still it can be useful to enforce that in build.pl.
> PROVE_FLAGS can be both, but you are right that setting it in build.pl
> would be the most common approach. So let's document both. Attached
> is a proposal for that, what do you think? I have extended the
> example of PROVE_FLAGS to show how to set up more --jobs.
>

LGTM.

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha