The behavior of "make check"

[Dan Eble]

Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Subject: [testlilyissues:issues] Re: #5564 Fix conversion warnings in beaming 
> code
> Date: October 10, 2019 at 12:08:48 EDT
> I'm sorry to contribute to your frustration. I can see what the process is, 
> but my question (which I direct to LilyPond developers in general) is whether 
> it is justified that make check run to completion using an out-of-date 
> lilypond rather than either rebuilding it first or raising some kind of 
> alarm. Must we continue to put up with it?
> 
> The purpose of make is to follow dependencies and do exactly what needs to be 
> done. The difference in behavior between these cases seems contrary to that:
> 
> make && make check
> make check
— 
Dan