On 18 December 2015 at 13:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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

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