Hello, * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:00:39AM CET: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:17 PM, John Calcote wrote: > > Alexander's solution is great, though. I'm going to use that one myself. > > For this, you'd need to change all Makefile.ams and it isn't working > recursively...
Yes. > What is with having > > AC_SUBST(TESTS) > > in configure.in and running: > > $ make check TESTS= > > to skip test execution? I don't see why you need the AC_SUBST in order to be able to do the second line. In fact, it is typically harmful because when not used, automake mangles the TESTS variable nicely for you, adding $(EXEEXT) where needed and so on. You have to do that yourself in configure. > > Additionally, if I want to build a particular check program (perhaps as I'm > > working out the compiler errors, but before I'm ready to actually run the > > tests), I just type "make <check-program-name>" from that directory. > > You just have to remember to add `.exe' on cygwin and MSYS, > especially within scripts / make rules ($(EXEEXT)), > otherwise (at least GNU-) make uses a default built-in rule > to compile and link <check-program-name>, typically with > different LIBS. The compiler command line looks plausible but > fails and confuses people :-) That, too. Cheers, Ralf
