Re: Slight simplification to README-release

[Reuben Thomas]

On 6 October 2011 00:54, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> In a big package, "make check" will take, say, 10 minutes and
> "make distcheck" say 30 minutes. When I'm preparing a release,
> it takes me at most 1 or 2 iterations to get "make check" work
> fine, whereas often it takes me 5 iterations until "make distcheck"
> passes. If I were to use
>  $ make check distcheck
> then I would lose 10 minutes of time in each of the "make distcheck"
> iterations.

I'd expect this sort of workflow:

1. Try "make distcheck"

2. Oops. Some test failed! Dig into it. Re-run "make check". Go to 1.

But I don't see the need to write it out in a release procedure. So
why not indeed reduce to "make syntax-check distcheck"?

After all, the expectatation is that you already have all tests
passing before you start the release procedure.

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