Re: Tramp "make check" suite

[Bob Proulx]

Haines Brown wrote:
> 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?

If you pull a copy of the tramp source code such as by git then
running make check will run the tests.  For example:

  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/tramp.git
  cd tramp
  autoreconf --install
  ./configure
  make
  make check

If it passes all of the tests then a 'make install' will install it
into the /usr/local tree.  This is for a source code installation.
GNU is all about the source code after all.  But most people install
emacs through a software distribution.  It comes with the operating
system.  When installed like that the tests were already run when the
source was built into the distribution package.

Bob