Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

> On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:26:30 +0100
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:17:49 -0800
>> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> 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*

Thank you for pointing to the relevant lines in the Makefile!

> Interesting :)

That's one way to put it... :-)

-- 
Chris