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@@ -1945,6 +1945,18 @@ about the various security aspects of temporary files. =back +The core distribution can now run its regression tests in parallel on +Unix-like platforms. Instead of running C<make test>, set C<TEST_JOBS> in +your environment to the number of tests to run in parallel, and run +C<make test_harness>. On a Bourne-like shell, this can be done as + + TEST_JOBS=3 make test_harness # Run 3 tests in parallel + +An environment variable is used, rather than parallel make itself, because +L<TAP::Harness> needs to be able to schedule individual non-conflicting test +scripts itself, and there is no standard interface to C<make> utilities to +interact with their job schedulers. + =head1 make install This will put perl into the public directory you specified to |