On 2/15/2017 2:11 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > 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 >
Makes sense. I will update as: "make test" -> compile and run test "make test_build" -> only compile test (newly added "make test_run" will go away) thanks, ferruh > --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
