From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: noloader@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make check fails due to missing test directory
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 22:13:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0kzmjw6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8ku9uXb_142Ld44mR1QPPQWCi_rvTmCjub-u8=f-RP7HQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jeffrey Walton on Fri, 3 May 2019 14:41:48 -0400)
> From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 14:41:48 -0400
>
> I'm building 26.2 from sources. My typical workflow is:
>
> 1. unpack tarball
> 2. configure
> 3. make
> 4. make check
> 5. sudo make install
>
> The workflow works for about 60 GNU packages I build. However, Emacs fails with:
>
> gmake[2]: Entering directory '/home/build/emacs-26.2/lisp'
> gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for 'compile-targets'.
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/home/build/emacs-26.2/lisp'
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/home/build/emacs-26.2/lisp'
> You do not seem to have the test/ directory.
> Maybe you are using a release tarfile, rather than a repository checkout.
> gmake: *** [Makefile:943: have-tests] Error 1
>
> How does one tun 'make check' before an install? What special steps
> need to be performed?
You need to download the test suite. It is not part of the release
tarball. You can find it in the Emacs development repository.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-03 18:41 make check fails due to missing test directory Jeffrey Walton
2019-05-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-05-03 22:01 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-04 9:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-04 15:56 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-04 16:44 ` Michael Albinus
2019-05-16 17:54 ` Emacs distribution tarball now supports 'make check' Paul Eggert
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