At Monday 08 March 2010, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 05:28:19PM CET: > > Anothor small cosmetic patch; it adds the list of generated tests > > ($(parallel_tests)) to the check_SCRIPTS variable, so that all > > the automatically generated tests are created before starting to > > run any test script in the testsuite. > > That this is not done is on purpose: to demonstrate lazy updating. > In this case, it does not help all that much because test generation > is very fast, but it serves as example anyway; see e.g., > <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/11495>. Thanks for the information. So my patch "fixed" a wanted behaviour, as I suspected.
But what would you think about adding a convenience target `generated-tests' to the Makefile so that one can easily regenerate all the generated test scripts without having to find out their names? Then we could also add a brief comment telling why $(TESTS) is not in check_SCRIPTS, and why `check' doesn't depend on the `generated-tests' target. WDYT? Regards, Stefano