Run the tests in parallel

Cause the time needed to run the testsuite to drop from ~4mins to ~40s

mk/run_test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -u
+
+red=""
+green=""
+yellow=""
+normal=""
+
+post_run_msg="ran test $1..."
+if [ -t 1 ]; then
+    red=""
+    green=""
+    yellow=""
+    normal=""
+fi
+(cd $(dirname $1) && env ${TESTS_ENVIRONMENT} init.sh 2>/dev/null > /dev/null)
+log="$(cd $(dirname $1) && env ${TESTS_ENVIRONMENT} $(basename $1) 2>&1)"
+status=$?
+if [ $status -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "$post_run_msg [${green}PASS$normal]"
+elif [ $status -eq 99 ]; then
+  echo "$post_run_msg [${yellow}SKIP$normal]"
+else
+  echo "$post_run_msg [${red}FAIL$normal]"
+  echo "$log" | sed 's/^/    /'
+  exit "$status"
+fi

mk/tests.mk

@@ -1,45 +1,12 @@
 # Run program $1 as part of ‘make installcheck’.
 define run-install-test
 
-  installcheck: $1
+  installcheck: $1.test
 
-  _installcheck-list += $1
+  .PHONY: $1.test
+  $1.test: $1 tests/common.sh tests/init.sh
+	@env TEST_NAME=$1 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT="$(tests-environment)" mk/run_test.sh $1
 
 endef
 
-# Color code from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/10065
-installcheck:
-	@total=0; failed=0; \
-	red=""; \
-	green=""; \
-	yellow=""; \
-	normal=""; \
-	if [ -t 1 ]; then \
-		red=""; \
-		green=""; \
-		yellow=""; \
-		normal=""; \
-	fi; \
-	for i in $(_installcheck-list); do \
-	  total=$$((total + 1)); \
-	  printf "running test $$i..."; \
-	  log="$$(cd $$(dirname $$i) && $(tests-environment) $$(basename $$i) 2>&1)"; \
-	  status=$$?; \
-	  if [ $$status -eq 0 ]; then \
-	    echo " [$${green}PASS$$normal]"; \
-	  elif [ $$status -eq 99 ]; then \
-	    echo " [$${yellow}SKIP$$normal]"; \
-	  else \
-	    echo " [$${red}FAIL$$normal]"; \
-	    echo "$$log" | sed 's/^/    /'; \
-	    failed=$$((failed + 1)); \
-	  fi; \
-	done; \
-	if [ "$$failed" != 0 ]; then \
-	  echo "$${red}$$failed out of $$total tests failed $$normal"; \
-	  exit 1; \
-	else \
-		echo "$${green}All tests succeeded$$normal"; \
-	fi
-
 .PHONY: check installcheck

tests/common.sh.in

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 set -e
 
-export TEST_ROOT=$(realpath ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/nix-test)
+export TEST_ROOT=$(realpath ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/nix-test)/${TEST_NAME:-default}
 export NIX_STORE_DIR
 if ! NIX_STORE_DIR=$(readlink -f $TEST_ROOT/store 2> /dev/null); then
     # Maybe the build directory is symlinked.