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From: Zimmermann Paul <Paul.Zimmermann <at> inria.fr>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Cc: Vincent.Lefevre <at> ens-lyon.fr
Subject: check-build target
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:37:16 +0200

       Hi,

this is not a real bug report, but a feature request.

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)

check-am: all-am check-build
        $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS

Best regards,
Paul Zimmermann

Message #8 received at 14132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Zimmermann Paul <Paul.Zimmermann <at> inria.fr>
Cc: 14132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Vincent.Lefevre <at> ens-lyon.fr
Subject: Re: bug#14132: check-build target
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:34:58 +0200

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

Message #13 received at 14132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Zimmermann Paul <Paul.Zimmermann <at> inria.fr>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Vincent.Lefevre <at> ens-lyon.fr
Subject: Re: bug#14132: check-build target
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:25:54 +0200

thank you Stefano for your feedback.

Paul

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:34:58 +0200
> From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
> CC: 14132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Vincent.Lefevre <at> ens-lyon.fr
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> 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
> 

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