Re: Can I force 'make install' to depend on 'make test'?

["Dr. David Kirkby" <drkirkby at ntlworld dot com>]

Eric Siegerman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:30:08AM +0000, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > [Bitmaps (.bmp files) are to be generated by "make check", and then
> > installed as examples by "make install"]
> 
> How big are the bitmaps?  If they're small enough, or compress
> well enough, it might be reasonable to just include them in the
> distribution.  That way:
>   - "install" no longer needs to depend on "check"

There is quite a lot of them and they are big. They do tend to compress pretty well, but I'd rather not distribute them. 
 
> "md5" might not be that portable either, for that matter.  On
> some systems it's called "md5sum"; other systems might not have
> it at all.  

I have got around that by including it is the source. I found on the web a single C file that did it. So I can be sure it's present. 

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