On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:43:19PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 18 December 2015 at 13:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 18/12/2015 14:35, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > >> > That would not be recursive make, but rather a completely separate > >> > Makefile to be manually invoked with -f. > >> > >> Hmm but wouldn't this Makefile also be a good place for small-fast > >> style check scripts that could be included in make check ? > > > > Yes, but there is no benefit from inclusion, since these tests do not > > depend on anything having been built already. > > In particular, if it doesn't require a preceding configure or > build I can just run it once as part of my merge testing rather > than farming it out to be run in parallel on five machines and > ten different configs :-)
Ok, yeah, that makes total sense - it certainly shouldn't depend on any configure / build step. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
