[FFmpeg-devel] Running FATE

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Gyan Doshi
> Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2021 09:24
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Running FATE
> 
> 
> 
> On 2021-09-09 11:03 am, Soft Works wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a few questions regarding FATE:
> >
> > - Is it possible to run FATE in a way that it doesn't stop on
> error?
> 
> make -k fate
> 
> > - Is there a better way to exclude certain tests other than
> commenting
> >    them in the mak files?
> 
> Don't enable/compile at least one of the dependencies of those tests.
> 
> > - Is it possible to run just a specific test via command line?
> 
> make fate-specific-test
> 
> Regards,
> Gyan

Hi,

one more question I forgot to ask: is there a safe way to accelerate those
test runs?

I had tried with something like '-j8', but this didn't produce
reliable results.
Without deeper investigation it seems that this causes tests to be run 
before their dependencies have been built.

Is there a proper way to parallelize test runs or is it recommended to 
run these sequentially always?

Thanks,
softworkz