Re: why does make check run all tests?

[Phillip Lord]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12/02/2015 02:12 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:
>
>> Should make check just not build incrementally? If you want to run
>> everything unconditionally, then why not use
>>
>> make clean check
>
> That would fully recompile Emacs, rebuild the info files, and only then run
> the tests. That's too slow.

In the root directory yes. In the test directory, it doesn't.


>> Or am I missing something obvious? In which case, I will need to restore
>> the old behaviour for make check and leave make check-maybe as is.
>
> Yes, I think we should have two build targets for tests.

I guess that there would no problem adding "check-maybe" to the root
Makefile. At the moment, this is only runnable from tests.

Phil