Build script to help bisecting by cherry-picking compiler fixes

[Kornel Benko]

Am Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:42:17 +0100
schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>:

> Le 19/11/2024 à 08:54, Kornel Benko a écrit :
> > I am running the tests mostly as 24 jobs parallel (I have 8 cpu's with 2 cores each).
> > The individual export tests may vary between < 1 second and > 1800 seconds.
> > Total time for export tests here
> >   $ ctest -j24 --timeout 1800 -L export -E '(xhtml|lyx..)$'
> > is about 1 hour for 5608 tests.  
> 
> What is it that takes time? Is it LyX or image conversions? 

Mostly Russian docs. Also Japanese compilations are slow, but not as slow as Russian.
Image conversion is fast, but creation of pdf (because of some fonts?) is slow.

> If it is the 
> former, it would make sense to spend time to speed-up those. If it is 
> the later, could we get away with a dummy converter that always produces 
> the same image? Would that be enough for the sake of testing, or does 
> one want to inspect the output?

We do not inspect the created pdf yet. I do not see much benefit here of using dummy
images.

> JMarc

	Kornel
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