From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Lance Taylor To: alan@SPRI.Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au Cc: drepper@cygnus.com, jason@cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: make check Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:29:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990729173430.9998.qmail@daffy.airs.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-07/msg00035.html Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:58:24 +0930 (CST) From: Alan Modra I've been slightly annoyed that "make check" always did a "make all" for quite a while, but never annoyed enough to fix it until now. Jason, on Oct 27 1997 you added the check-target-libio dependency on all-target-libio. Has the need for this gone? Ulrich, do we need "check" to depend on "all" in your po/Makefiles? I think I need an OK from both of you (and Ian) before checking this in. These changes are OK with me. Note that you can change them in the binutils repository without affecting any other repository. Of course, it would probably be nicer if we all agreed on the proper solution. I tend to agree that ``make check'' should not imply ``make all.'' The GNU standards say this: Perform self-tests (if any). The user must build the program before running the tests, but need not install the program; you should write the self-tests so that they work when the program is built but not installed. which is ambiguous, but I think it implies that ``make check'' need not imply ``make all''. Ian