Hi Reuben, > Anything that reasonably reduces the number of manual steps here has > to be a good thing. I combine two sets of make targets: > ... > + make check syntax-check distcheck
But that's probably not how people actually do it. In a big package, "make check" will take, say, 10 minutes and "make distcheck" say 30 minutes. When I'm preparing a release, it takes me at most 1 or 2 iterations to get "make check" work fine, whereas often it takes me 5 iterations until "make distcheck" passes. If I were to use $ make check distcheck then I would lose 10 minutes of time in each of the "make distcheck" iterations. Recall also that when "make distcheck" passes, "make check" also passes (unless your build is configured with heavily non-default options). Bruno -- In memoriam Annalena Tonelli <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalena_Tonelli>
