Need help deciphering posix.mak

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/03/2014 09:31 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
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>> Yep, this is so because all unit tests live in a shared library.
>
> Mmm. Why pack unittests into a shared library?

Well to test phobos as shared library, which is still supposed to become 
the default at some point.

>> So we need a special test runner to run only a single module, allowing
>> us to still parallelize testing.
>
> Does it work the same way if Phobos is a static library?

Yes, for simplicity it works the same way.