On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 11:41:11AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > tools/unittests/run.py discovers and runs the unit tests there (which > are primarily documentation tools), but nothing in the build calls it, > so the tests are only run by whoever remembers that the script is there. > > Give it a target, next to the other checks that need no Sphinx. The name > ends in "docs", so it matches the "%docs" pattern already in > no-dot-config-targets and runs without a configured tree, and it sets > PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX as the other Python targets here do, to keep > __pycache__ directories out of the source tree. > > $ make testdocs > ... > Ran 121 tests
Very nice! Thanks! > with "make dochelp" listing it between refcheckdocs and cleandocs. > > Tested with GNU Make 4.4.1 and Python 3.14.7, on a tree with no .config, > where it ran 121 tests and left no __pycache__ behind. > > Assisted-by: LLM > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
