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Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI] [ng] check: avoid extra recursive make invocatio
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI] [ng] check: avoid extra recursive make invocations |
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Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:29:22 +0200 |
Le 30 juil. 2012 à 14:04, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
> After this change, "make check" will not cause any recursive make
> invocation by default (unless there are $(SUBDIRS) to descend into, of
> course). One little price to pay is that the targets 'check-TESTS',
> 'check-DEJAGNU' and 'check-local' will always be defined (being dummy
> by default). The other one is that the old semantics are not 100%
> preserved, so corner cases that worked in mainline Automake might not
> work anymore out-of-the-box with Automake-NG, thus requiring the user
> to make his dependency declarations more complete or precises.
> We believe these prices are well worth paying.
Nice.
Yet it would be nice to document the expected "corner cases"
in NEWS.