On 6 October 2011 00:54, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > 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.
I'd expect this sort of workflow: 1. Try "make distcheck" 2. Oops. Some test failed! Dig into it. Re-run "make check". Go to 1. But I don't see the need to write it out in a release procedure. So why not indeed reduce to "make syntax-check distcheck"? After all, the expectatation is that you already have all tests passing before you start the release procedure. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
