On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 05:30:14PM +0000, Richardson, Bruce wrote:
> Just to be awkward :-), one last question: Why separate building and running
> the tests? My suggestion would be to have "make test" both build and run the
> tests. If there is no work to do in building them, then the time cost of the
> extra empty build is negligible compared to the time taken to actually run
> the tests.
+1
--yliu
> If we really want to build the tests without running them I'd
> suggest "build_test" target instead. This keeps "make test" pretty much as
> it was before.
>
> /Bruce
