Re: Addition to gnu-build-system: make test.

[ng0 <ng0@n0.is>]

Can we ease it up in a different way for applications which do not have
aliases?
Maybe using something like
#:check-is-tests? #t in the arguments, which fails when check and test
exist?

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

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> "make check" is what the Gnu Coding Standards specify:
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Standard-Targets
>
> So I think it should stay as it is - at least for the gnu-build-system
>
> J'
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 12:05:47PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>      On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:14:25PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>      > 
>      > 2016-08-26 15:16 <ng0> recently when I pointed out to someone and they
>      > added a make check which just calls the original make test, I was
>      > wondering if our gnu build system should try for make test and make
>      > check.. this seems to be very common test instead of check
>      > 2016-08-26 15:19 <kyamashita> ng0: Or maybe try one if the other fails?
>      > 2016-08-26 15:19 <ng0> yes.. very often I had to replace check with just
>      > test
>      > 2016-08-26 15:21 <kyamashita> It might be worth bringing up on the
>      > guix-devel mailing list to see what others think.
>      > 2016-08-26 15:21 <ng0> yes.. I will do so later
>      > 
>      > What do others think? How can we extend gnu-build-system so that make
>      > test can be used but make check is not ignored?
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>      I was curious how many times we use test-target:
>      
>      $ grep test-target gnu/packages/*scm | wc -l
>      87
>      $ grep test-target gnu/packages/*scm | grep \"test\" | wc -l
>      52
>      $ grep test-target gnu/packages/*scm | grep \"tests\" | wc -l
>      8
>      
>      I guess the real question is, will running an extra `make test' after
>      `make check' break anything? Also, I'm sure some of the makefiles have
>      one as an alias of the other, we don't want to run the tests twice.
>      
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