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Re: why does make check run all tests?
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: why does make check run all tests? |
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Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:13:51 +0000 |
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Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
> On 12/02/2015 02:12 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:
>
>> Should make check just not build incrementally? If you want to run
>> everything unconditionally, then why not use
>>
>> make clean check
>
> That would fully recompile Emacs, rebuild the info files, and only then run
> the tests. That's too slow.
In the root directory yes. In the test directory, it doesn't.
>> Or am I missing something obvious? In which case, I will need to restore
>> the old behaviour for make check and leave make check-maybe as is.
>
> Yes, I think we should have two build targets for tests.
I guess that there would no problem adding "check-maybe" to the root
Makefile. At the moment, this is only runnable from tests.
Phil