make check-expensive [was: [PATCH] rm, du, chmod, chown, chgrp: use much less memory for large directories]

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 08/24/2011 10:49 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> > BTW: Wouldn't this test deserve a proper make target, e.g.
> > "make check-expensive"?
>
> Yes, good idea.
> That would make it easier to run just those test.
>
> However, hard-coding the list of expensive and very-expensive
> tests would require doing the same sort of thing as is done
> for root_tests (see check-root) in tests/Makefile.am,
> where there'd be a hand-maintained list of expensive and very-expensive
> tests (in tests/Makefile.am) as well as rules to run them and rules
> to cross-check that the lists are complete, as is done in cfg.mk's
> sc-root_tests rule.

Wouldn't it be sufficient to add something like the following
to the top-level Makefile.am?

check-expensive:
        env RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make check

check-very-expensive:
        env RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make check

Berny