Good, we do plan to patch lots of existing client tests. And this is just a
beginning.

Now I include disktest and dbench just as examples:



On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:54 PM, John Admanski <jadmanski@google.com> wrote:

> Looks fine. It wouldn't hurt to see a patch to at least one test to have it
> make use of this function.
>
> -- John
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Eric Li(???) <ericli@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick response. Please take another look.
>>
>>
>> Index: client/common_lib/utils.py
>> ===================================================================
>> --- client/common_lib/utils.py (revision 4747)
>> +++ client/common_lib/utils.py (working copy)
>> @@ -1165,6 +1165,16 @@
>>      system('%s %s' % (configure, ' '.join(args)))
>>
>>
>> +def make(extra='', make='make', timeout=None, ignore_status=False):
>> +    """
>> +    Run make, adding MAKEOPTS to the list of options.
>> +
>> +    @param extra: extra command line arguments to pass to make.
>> +    """
>> +    cmd = '%s %s %s' % (make, os.environ.get('MAKEOPTS', ''), extra)
>>  +    return system(cmd, timeout=timeout, ignore_status=ignore_status)
>> +
>> +
>>  def compare_versions(ver1, ver2):
>>      """Version number comparison between ver1 and ver2 strings.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:51 PM, John Admanski <jadmanski@google.com>wrote:
>>
>>> It should be consistent and use single-quoted strings for all of the
>>> string literals, but otherwise looks fine.
>>>
>>> -- John
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Eric Li(???) <ericli@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The idea here is to add -j option to most of our client tests at
>>>> pre-build stage. From our experiment, it reduced almost 50% of our build
>>>>  time.
>>>>
>>>> The original author of this CL is CCed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Index: client/common_lib/utils.py
>>>> ===================================================================
>>>> --- client/common_lib/utils.py (revision 4747)
>>>> +++ client/common_lib/utils.py (working copy)
>>>> @@ -1165,6 +1165,16 @@
>>>>      system('%s %s' % (configure, ' '.join(args)))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +def make(extra='', make='make', timeout=None, ignore_status=False):
>>>> +    """
>>>> +    Run make, adding MAKEOPTS to the list of options.
>>>> +
>>>> +    @param extra: extra command line arguments to pass to make.
>>>> +    """
>>>> +    cmd = '%s %s %s' % (make, os.environ.get("MAKEOPTS", ""), extra)
>>>>
>>> +    return system(cmd, timeout=timeout, ignore_status=ignore_status)
>>>> +
>>>> +
>>>>  def compare_versions(ver1, ver2):
>>>>      """Version number comparison between ver1 and ver2 strings.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Eric Li
>>>> ???
>>>> Google Kirkland
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Eric Li
>> ???
>> Google Kirkland
>>
>>
>>
>



git-svn-id: http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk@4748 592f7852-d20e-0410-864c-8624ca9c26a4
diff --git a/client/common_lib/utils.py b/client/common_lib/utils.py
index 6ca33fa..a117cec 100644
--- a/client/common_lib/utils.py
+++ b/client/common_lib/utils.py
@@ -1165,6 +1165,16 @@
     system('%s %s' % (configure, ' '.join(args)))
 
 
+def make(extra='', make='make', timeout=None, ignore_status=False):
+    """
+    Run make, adding MAKEOPTS to the list of options.
+
+    @param extra: extra command line arguments to pass to make.
+    """
+    cmd = '%s %s %s' % (make, os.environ.get('MAKEOPTS', ''), extra)
+    return system(cmd, timeout=timeout, ignore_status=ignore_status)
+
+
 def compare_versions(ver1, ver2):
     """Version number comparison between ver1 and ver2 strings.