On 18 December 2015 at 13:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 18/12/2015 14:35, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >> > That would not be recursive make, but rather a completely separate >> > Makefile to be manually invoked with -f. >> >> Hmm but wouldn't this Makefile also be a good place for small-fast >> style check scripts that could be included in make check ? > > Yes, but there is no benefit from inclusion, since these tests do not > depend on anything having been built already.
In particular, if it doesn't require a preceding configure or build I can just run it once as part of my merge testing rather than farming it out to be run in parallel on five machines and ten different configs :-) thanks -- PMM