On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:26:30 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:17:49 -0800
> Chris Marusich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Is it necessary to run "make" before "make check",   
> 
> No.
> 
> >or is it good enough
> > to just run "make check" and rely on Make to build whatever needs to be
> > built to run "make check"?  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> See the Makefile:
> 
> all: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
> check: $(BUILT_SOURCES)

And also

check-am: all-am
all-am: ...

And also a Rube-Goldberg-esque contraption for all-recursive, check-recursive 
which invokes "make" inside SUBDIRS. *shakes head*

Interesting :)

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