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Re: Is it necessary to run "make" before "make check"?
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Chris Marusich |
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Re: Is it necessary to run "make" before "make check"? |
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Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:26:15 -0800 |
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Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:26:30 +0100
> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:17:49 -0800
>> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > Is it necessary to run "make" before "make check",
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>> No.
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>> >or is it good enough
>> > to just run "make check" and rely on Make to build whatever needs to be
>> > built to run "make check"?
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>> Yes.
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>> See the Makefile:
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>> all: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
>> check: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
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> And also
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> check-am: all-am
> all-am: ...
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> And also a Rube-Goldberg-esque contraption for all-recursive, check-recursive
> which invokes "make" inside SUBDIRS. *shakes head*
Thank you for pointing to the relevant lines in the Makefile!
> Interesting :)
That's one way to put it... :-)
--
Chris
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