[CC:ing bug-automake so that we won't forget about the issue] On 04/16/2012 09:02 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: > Hello, > > I find the recheck target very handy. In most projects we have a recursive > structure and added a > > recheck: all > (cd test && make $@) > > in top_dir. And typically I work like > > edit sources > make recheck VERBOSE=1 -j8 > edit source > etc > > which works very nice. Now I've started to work in a project with > non-recursive > Makefile and I tried working the same fashion but got very confused until I > realized recheck does not depend on all, so my changes in source did not > affect > the test result unless i did > > make all -j8 && make recheck VERBOSE=1 -j8 > > I'm just curious; why isn't 'recheck' automatically doing that for me in the > same fashion as 'check' depends on 'all'. > No good reason that I can think of actually; maybe it is just a wart that has been there since day one.
I'll take a look shortly; probably this is something we can solve before Automake 1.12 (in which case we'd better release another beta as well). Thanks, Stefano
