Re: Tramp "make check" suite

[Michael Albinus]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

>>> This suite is mentioned in the tramp manual, but without any indication
>>> of what its contents are. What commands does it make available? All the
>>> manual says is to call make check. How does one do that?
>>
>> By typing "make check" at the shell prompt, I presume.
>
> That's what I would have thought. 
>
>        M-! make check       
>        make: *** No rule to make tarket `check'. Stop
>
> It seems that I am telling emacs to compile the file "check" rather
> than test tramp.

`default-directory' of your buffer must be the directory where you have
extracted Tramp, for example "~/src/tramp-2.2.11". The command
"./configure" must run before, if not done already.

The test suite is part of Tramp since release 2.2.9.

> Haines

Best regards, Michael.