bug#14132: check-build target

[Zimmermann Paul]

thank you Stefano for your feedback.

Paul

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:34:58 +0200
> From: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
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> 
> severity 14132 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> Hi Paul, sorry for the shameful delay.
> 
> On 04/03/2013 03:37 PM, Zimmermann Paul wrote:
> >        Hi,
> > 
> > this is not a real bug report, but a feature request.
> > 
> And tagging the report accordingly.
> 
> > We are using automake in the GNU MPFR project. Thank you for this program!
> > In our "make check" target, automake produces:
> > 
> > check-am: all-am
> >         $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_LTLIBRARIES) $(check_PROGRAMS)
> >         $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS
> > 
> > However when cross-compiling, we'd like to only build the tests binaries,
> > not run them on the build machine.
> > 
> > Thus it would be nice to have a separate target (say check-build) that would
> > only build the check programs, not run them:
> > 
> > check-build:
> >         $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_LTLIBRARIES) $(check_PROGRAMS)
> > 
> Sound sensible.  Maybe with s/check-build/check-build-am/ though, to avoid
> impinging on the user namespace, and avoid breaking existing Makefile.am
> that happen to already use the 'check-build' target name for other purposes
> (I bet there are such packages in the wild).
> 
> > check-am: all-am check-build
> >         $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS
> >
> A change in this direction doesn't seem to difficult, and I agree that the
> feature you are requesting might indeed be useful.  But I don't have much
> Automake time ATM, and there are existing loose ends that needs to be
> addressed first.  So I don't know when I will get back to your feature
> request, sadly.  In the meantime, if you want to help speeding things up,
> patches are very welcome ;-)
> 
> Best regards,
>   Stefano
>