Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:37:22AM CET: > At Monday 08 March 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * 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?
distdir run by 'make dist' provides such a convenience target. It does a little more, but I've considered that sufficient so far. The test generation isn't exactly prone to failure. ;-) Thanks, Ralf
