Greg Stein wrote:
> I'm with ghudson on this one. The test programs are very minor in the
> scheme of things, so they ought to be part of "all". If time is an issue,
> then we have a bunch of convenience targets to use instead (e.g. 'svn' was
> mentioned).
Do you mean "all" as in literally "make all", or as in the default make
target?
I.e. Would you be satisfied with making the default make target "default",
and not making the tests in that, but providing an "all" target which builds
"default" + the tests?
If not, could you explain why?
Thanks,
Max.
>
> Cheers,
> -g
>
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:08:17PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
>> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 14:11, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> Are there any use cases when the user really care what CFLAGS are used
to
>>> build temporary testing programs that are not installed?
>>
>> Yes, and they should be as obvious to you as they are to me. ("I expect
>> the test program to crash, so I want to rebuild Subversion, including
>> the test programs, with debugging symbols, so that I can debug it.")
>>
>>> If there are, I'd rather find a "best-of-both-worlds" solution, as the
>>> wasted time was sufficiently annoying to motivate me to make and test
this
>>> change.
>>
>> If we're talking about the incremental time of rebuilding after a small
>> change, I usually type "make local-all" to do that. "make bin fs-bin"
>> might do what you want; you could make a target which is an alias for
>> those two.
>>
>> If we're talking about the time for a total build, I can't see how the
>> extra time is significant, given how much other stuff gets built.
>>
>>
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