On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 06:50:44PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > At least --enable-t2a-tests is useful because running the test suite takes a > lot of time and this is useful for testing changes to build system files > (Makefile.am or configure.ac) without running through all the tests multiple > times. I wrote the following in README-hacking: > > "make distcheck" is the standard check that the build system is > working correctly. You can make it run quicker by disabling some > of the texi2any tests: > "make distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=--disable-t2a-tests".
Ok. > --enable-refcounts-checks > > I don't have Devel::Refcount installed on my system so don't know > if there is a downside to running the tests, such as if they take a long > time to run. I tried to see the effect on make check time, and the effect is small and variable. It is not really surprising, as the main difference, besides checking the references count is the call of a Perl function to remove references to tree elements when a Document is destroyed. -- Pat
