Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.19 on HP-UX

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:36:49PM CEST:
> > > According to H.Merijn Brand on 10/18/2007 1:43 AM:
> > > > 
> > > > Please convince the GNU world to add 'make test' as alias for
> > > > 'make check'.
> > > 
> > > It won't work for coreutils, where test is the name of a built program.
> > > That's why the GNU Coding Standards mandate 'make check', but mention
> > > nothing about 'make test'.  However, patches to automake are welcome.

Sorry, but I'm not convinved that this should be done.  Either the GNU
Coding Standards should be convinced to list this (which they won't,
because coreutils would suffer), or put `test: check' in your toplevel
Makefile.am.  I don't see an intrinsic advantage of `test' over `check'.

Cheers,
Ralf