Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.19 on HP-UX

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:28:21 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:36:49PM CEST:
> > > > According to H.Merijn Brand on 10/18/2007 1:43 AM:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Please convince the GNU world to add 'make test' as alias for
> > > > > 'make check'.
> > > > 
> > > > It won't work for coreutils, where test is the name of a built program.
> > > > That's why the GNU Coding Standards mandate 'make check', but mention
> > > > nothing about 'make test'.  However, patches to automake are welcome.
> 
> Sorry, but I'm not convinved that this should be done.  Either the GNU
> Coding Standards should be convinced to list this (which they won't,
> because coreutils would suffer), or put `test: check' in your toplevel
> Makefile.am.

Fine with me, but please do

> I don't see an intrinsic advantage of `test' over `check'.

maybe because you're only testing GNU packages?

I'm normally only building/testing perl stuff, and we/they use 'test' as
make test target. Far ages already. Even if I know GNU does not include
test as a legal build target, my typical build process for GNU stuff is:

# tar xzf Foo-1.3.tar.gz
# cd Foo-1.3
# configure --help
# configure --prefix=/pro/local --disable-nls
# make
# make test
 ... curse loudly ...
# make check
# make install
# rm -rf /pro/local/info /pro/local/share/info

for perl/CPAN stuff, that would be

# tar xzf Foo-1.3.tar.gz
# cd Foo-1.3
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install UNINST=1

give or take a few edits and README file readings along the way

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