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Re: recheck not dependent on all:
From: |
Stefano Lattarini |
Subject: |
Re: recheck not dependent on all: |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:27:56 +0200 |
[CC:ing bug-automake so that we won't forget about the issue]
On 04/16/2012 09:02 AM, Peter Johansson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I find the recheck target very handy. In most projects we have a recursive
> structure and added a
>
> recheck: all
> (cd test && make $@)
>
> in top_dir. And typically I work like
>
> edit sources
> make recheck VERBOSE=1 -j8
> edit source
> etc
>
> which works very nice. Now I've started to work in a project with
> non-recursive
> Makefile and I tried working the same fashion but got very confused until I
> realized recheck does not depend on all, so my changes in source did not
> affect
> the test result unless i did
>
> make all -j8 && make recheck VERBOSE=1 -j8
>
> I'm just curious; why isn't 'recheck' automatically doing that for me in the
> same fashion as 'check' depends on 'all'.
>
No good reason that I can think of actually; maybe it is just a wart that has
been there since day one.
I'll take a look shortly; probably this is something we can solve before
Automake 1.12 (in which case we'd better release another beta as well).
Thanks,
Stefano