RE: split check target into check and test targets

[Daily, Jeff A]

> > Ok, fair enough.  But what's the easiest way to create a new
> recursive
> > target such as checkprogs?  Hopefully there's a more or less
> automatic
> > way using automake.
> 
> No, it's not, which is a real bummer.  Best you can do is somehow copy
> the $(RECURSIVE_TARGETS) rule as a fragment file and include that in
> the
> other Makefile.am files.
> 
> I'd like to improve this situation at some point.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf

Good advice, Ralf.  I've done just that.  Now I have the freedom to add any 
recursive targets I need.

I used find with sed to insert into the top of all of my Makefile.am files:

find -name 'Makefile.am' -exec sed -i '1i\include 
$(top_srcdir)/config/ga_recur.mk\n' {} \;

All I need to do is add a few lines to my ga_recur.mk to add additional 
recursive targets, if I ever need them.  I could probably have removed the -am 
target stuff, right?  Oh, well.  There were only a handful of Makefile.am files 
which had a check_PROGRAMS target, so in those files I've added:

TESTS = $(check_PROGRAMS)
checkprogs:
        $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_PROGRAMS)

The contents of ga_recur.mk are:

# COPIED FROM MAKEFILE GENERATED BY AUTOMAKE 1.11.1
# 
# Modified to use our own recursive targets.
#
# This directory's subdirectories are mostly independent; you can cd
# into them and run `make' without going through this Makefile.
# To change the values of `make' variables: instead of editing Makefiles,
# (1) if the variable is set in `config.status', edit `config.status'
#     (which will cause the Makefiles to be regenerated when you run `make');
# (2) otherwise, pass the desired values on the `make' command line.
$(GA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS):
        @fail= failcom='exit 1'; \
        for f in x $$MAKEFLAGS; do \
          case $$f in \
            *=* | --[!k]*);; \
            *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \
          esac; \
        done; \
        dot_seen=no; \
        target=`echo $@ | sed s/-recursive//`; \
        list='$(SUBDIRS)'; for subdir in $$list; do \
          echo "Making $$target in $$subdir"; \
          if test "$$subdir" = "."; then \
            dot_seen=yes; \
            local_target="$$target-am"; \
          else \
            local_target="$$target"; \
          fi; \
          ($(am__cd) $$subdir && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $$local_target) \
          || eval $$failcom; \
        done; \
        if test "$$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
          $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) "$$target-am" || exit 1; \
        fi; test -z "$$fail"
# END COPY

GA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS = checkprogs-recursive

checkprogs: checkprogs-recursive
checkprogs-am: