* Schrader, Glenn wrote on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:10:13PM CEST: > I believe that I found the answer to my poorly asked question. My > confusion started when I noticed that target lists that begin with > check_ are special in that they are only built when 'make check' is > executed. This is reasonable since you probably want to do a complete > build before building any of the tests. I am using the target > 'installcheck' to verify that my installed libraries are working by > building test programs against the files installed at the install > prefix. It doesn't make any sense to make installcheck before making > install since there won't be anything at the install prefix to allow a > build to succeed.
Right. But automake doesn't ensure that you have typed 'make install' beforehand, either. I think you should just tell your users, better document it somewhere, that they have to use 'make install' before using 'make installcheck'. Note that automake cannot add a dependency: it is certainly possible that installation has to be done by a privileged user, while installcheck should typically be usable for nonprivileged users. Cheers, Ralf
