Re: Addition to gnu-build-system: make test.

[Efraim Flashner]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:14:25PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> 
> 2016-08-26 15:16 <ng0> recently when I pointed out to someone and they
> added a make check which just calls the original make test, I was
> wondering if our gnu build system should try for make test and make
> check.. this seems to be very common test instead of check
> 2016-08-26 15:19 <kyamashita> ng0: Or maybe try one if the other fails?
> 2016-08-26 15:19 <ng0> yes.. very often I had to replace check with just
> test
> 2016-08-26 15:21 <kyamashita> It might be worth bringing up on the
> guix-devel mailing list to see what others think.
> 2016-08-26 15:21 <ng0> yes.. I will do so later
> 
> What do others think? How can we extend gnu-build-system so that make
> test can be used but make check is not ignored?
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I was curious how many times we use test-target:

$ grep test-target gnu/packages/*scm | wc -l
87
$ grep test-target gnu/packages/*scm | grep \"test\" | wc -l
52
$ grep test-target gnu/packages/*scm | grep \"tests\" | wc -l
8

I guess the real question is, will running an extra `make test' after
`make check' break anything? Also, I'm sure some of the makefiles have
one as an alias of the other, we don't want to run the tests twice.


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