severity 12860 wishlist tags 12860 wontfix close 12860 Hi Thien-Thi.
On 11/11/2012 08:24 AM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > In GNU Serveez, there are many subdirectories, but only one (test/) > that supports "make check" (w/ var ‘TESTS’ et al). Thus, top-level > invocation of "make check" needlessly recurses, a grating annoyance. > > I'd thought to arrange for top-level "make check" to simply redirect > into test/ by using ‘check-local’, but that failed. Please see: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/serveez.git/commit?id=f504730d3f > > for details and the suboptimal workaround. Am i missing something? > If you want to avoid recursion, you should use a non-recursive Makefile. GNU packages like Coreutils, Bison and Automake itself already use such a setup in their build system, with no problem that I know of. The current behaviour of the '*-recursive' targets is deeply entrenched in the Automake implementation and design, and I have no plans to change it. I'm thus closing this report as "Won't Fix", sorry. Best Regards, Stefano
