Re: Tramp "make check" suite

[Dan Espen]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

>>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>  From: Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
>>> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:29:09 -0500
>>> 
>>> This suite is mentioned in the tramp manual, but without any indication
>>> of what its contents are. What commands does it make available? All the
>>> manual says is to call make check. How does one do that?
>>
>> By typing "make check" at the shell prompt, I presume.
>
> That's what I would have thought. 
>
>        M-! make check       
>        make: *** No rule to make tarket `check'. Stop
>
> It seems that I am telling emacs to compile the file "check" rather
> than test tramp.

Not exactly.
It means that the Makefile in the directory you were in when you did
"M-! make check" does not contain the target "check".

What directory were you in when you issued that command?
Is there a Makefile there?
Does the Makefile contain a target "check"?

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Dan Espen