On 01/24/2014 10:39 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 01/24/2014 08:36 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> The most common use I have for that is: ./make --test tests/misc/test-name.sh > > Hmm, I'd just run > make check TESTS=tests/misc/test-name.sh SUBDIRS=. > in that case. > > And when I want to run all cp tests, then I'd do something like > > make check TESTS="$( echo tests/cp/*.sh )" SUBDIRS=. > > Including expensive or very-expensive tests is not a big deal, > and similar to the make target "check-very-expensive". > > Thus said, instead of adding a script, I'd favor a new make target > which can search all test cases and run them - incl. (very-)expensive > if necessary. Something like > > make check-some T=cp
Yes I agree. We already have some other check-targets so we should probably augment those so we have a standard interface for running tests, but also handy enough to run subsets easily. I'll see what I can come up with. thanks, Pádraig.
