Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Properly order build targets 'all' and 'check'

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 June 2015 at 13:30, Michal Privoznik <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm used to run 'make -j5 all check'. However, this is not possible in
> qemu because of the missing dependency in the Makefile. If I do that,
> tests are usually started with build and since not everything is built
> yet, they often fail too. Moreover, we should run test suite only
> after every binary we want to test has been built.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index e7c5c3a..67eeb87 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ dummy := $(call unnest-vars,, \
>
>  ifneq ($(wildcard config-host.mak),)
>  include $(SRC_PATH)/tests/Makefile
> +check: all
>  endif
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_SMARTCARD_NSS),y)
>  include $(SRC_PATH)/libcacard/Makefile

I'm having difficulty understanding the use of conditionals
in our makefile -- can you explain why inside this ifneq
rather than outside is the right place for this dependency?

thanks
-- PMM