Re: gnulib-tool: make --with-tests more useful

2007-01-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > > Because when cross-compiling, you cannot run "make check" - > > it would try to execute the test programs, which always fails. > > An over-generalization. 'make check' generally doesn't work when > cross-compiling, but there are instances such as compiling 64-bit using > 32-

Re: gnulib-tool: make --with-tests more useful

2007-01-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 1/27/2007 6:53 AM: > Hi, > > The directories created by --create-testdir --with-tests and > --create-megatestdir --with-tests currently don't test a lot when doing > cross-compiles. Because when cross-compiling, you cannot

gnulib-tool: make --with-tests more useful

2007-01-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, The directories created by --create-testdir --with-tests and --create-megatestdir --with-tests currently don't test a lot when doing cross-compiles. Because when cross-compiling, you cannot run "make check" - it would try to execute the test programs, which always fails. So, to detect link err