From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make check fails due to missing test directory Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 22:13:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83d0kzmjw6.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="260959"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: noloader@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 03 23:14:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hMfVz-0012u5-89 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 23:14:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46198 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMddH-0000OP-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 15:14:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMdci-0000O7-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 15:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMdch-0005by-NU; Fri, 03 May 2019 15:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1560 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hMdcg-0006B2-J0; Fri, 03 May 2019 15:13:31 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Jeffrey Walton on Fri, 3 May 2019 14:41:48 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236110 Archived-At: > From: Jeffrey Walton > 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.