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Re: how to change the behaviour of "make check"?
Hi,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:07:17 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Ireneusz SZCZESNIAK <Ireneusz.Szczesniak@Colorado.EDU>
>
> Yeah! But still I want the output of "make check" to be clean. When
> a test fails, then I expect to see: "FAIL: test.sh".
>
> in this case the only thing i can suggest is to post-process the
> Makefile to change the "check-TESTS" target near the end to not check
> for failures. you might offend purists, but anyway, this can be done
> like so:
>
> ./configure
> cp Makefile TMP
> grep -v "^[ ]*test ...failed. -eq 0" TMP > Makefile
> rm TMP
> make
That seems a roundabout way to do it. Just copy the check-TESTS rule
into your Makefile.am file, and automake won't generate its internal
rule. You can customize your local copy of check-TESTS to your
heart's content.
- Hari
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