Re: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results Fortran on MinGW-w64

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2016-03-29 09:58-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> Alas, ctest failed and the script got stuck, so I had to kill it. The problem is presumably that the tests are run in parallel (-j4) and I have had serious problems with parallel make on Cygwin and MinGW. See the attached output file.
>
> I will retry with ctest in a serial mode.
>
> ---
> Indeed, setting the ctest command to "ctest" did the trick, see the attached tarball.

Hi Arjen:

I think it would be worthwhile for you to report both the parallel
make issue and the parallel ctest issue that you have encountered to
the MSYS2 list.  I cannot even make an informed guess whether those
two issues are related or not since as far as I know the ctest
application does not use "make" facilities for implementing parallel
ctests.  But maybe the MSYS2 developers can advise you whether both
ctest and make (I would advise you to mention the exact package names
including version numbers that you are using for both in your MSYS2
mailing list post) use a common facility that has a known bug on
MinGW-w64/MSYS2?

More later concerning your actual working "unparallel" result.

Alan
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