severity 14132 wishlist thanks Hi Paul, sorry for the shameful delay.
On 04/03/2013 03:37 PM, Zimmermann Paul wrote: > Hi, > > this is not a real bug report, but a feature request. > And tagging the report accordingly. > We are using automake in the GNU MPFR project. Thank you for this program! > In our "make check" target, automake produces: > > check-am: all-am > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_LTLIBRARIES) $(check_PROGRAMS) > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS > > However when cross-compiling, we'd like to only build the tests binaries, > not run them on the build machine. > > Thus it would be nice to have a separate target (say check-build) that would > only build the check programs, not run them: > > check-build: > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_LTLIBRARIES) $(check_PROGRAMS) > Sound sensible. Maybe with s/check-build/check-build-am/ though, to avoid impinging on the user namespace, and avoid breaking existing Makefile.am that happen to already use the 'check-build' target name for other purposes (I bet there are such packages in the wild). > check-am: all-am check-build > $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS > A change in this direction doesn't seem to difficult, and I agree that the feature you are requesting might indeed be useful. But I don't have much Automake time ATM, and there are existing loose ends that needs to be addressed first. So I don't know when I will get back to your feature request, sadly. In the meantime, if you want to help speeding things up, patches are very welcome ;-) Best regards, Stefano
