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Re: Tramp "make check" suite
From: |
Haines Brown |
Subject: |
Re: Tramp "make check" suite |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:33:05 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> 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
Aha! That explains it. Thanks Bob.