thank you Stefano for your feedback. Paul
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:34:58 +0200 > From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> > CC: 14...@debbugs.gnu.org, vincent.lefe...@ens-lyon.fr > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 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 >
