make test does not perform self-tests?

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

I noticed 'make test' does not perform testing of Ncurses. Instead,
testing is performed during 'make install'.

That's very unusual. According to GNU's coding standards, self-tests
are to be run during 'make check'. Also see
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html.

Typically the workflow is:

* configure
* make
* make check (or make test)
* make install if check is OK

Deferring 'make check' to the install step means we can install a
broken package. And in the case of Termcap and Ncurses, I seem to
recall the install is destructive on existing files. There is no way
to properly remove the package once installed.

Jeff