Re: [PATCH 00/17] De-recursion for the 'tests' subdirectory.

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Plus some other preparatory, follow-up or "while-at-it" changes.
>
> After this, "make syntax-check" and "make distcheck" still pass on
> my Debian box.
>
> This completes the first important part of the "de-recursion" of the
> coreutils build system: the compilation of the programs, the creation
> of Texinfo documentation and manpages, and the testsuite are now all
> controlled by one top-level Makefile.
>
> The next step would be de-recursing the gnulib-imported 'lib/' and
> 'gnulib-tests/' subdirectories, but I'll leave that to someone else ;-)

Thanks a lot.
I've applied these and ensured that distcheck works for me, too.
(BTW, in coreutils, distcheck includes "make syntax-check" -- at least
it used to)

I hope to actually review the changes later today.

The only missing pieces:
  - a timing comparison: does this result in a performance improvement?
  - a NEWS entry: every 70+-change-set deserves one ;-)
    One incidental improvement I've noticed: it fixes at least one bug
    that would cause an occasional parallel "make syntax-check" failure.