From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:49:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] build dashless "test-bin" directory similar to installed bindir
Message-ID: <20091128194910.GA17605@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vtywefn88.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:44:39AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>    . Advertising this forces the Makefile build test-bin/ contents from
>      "all" target.  I think test-bin/ should only depend on "test" (iow,
>      after "make all && make install" there shouldn't have to be "test-bin"
>      directory.

Would implementing it that way mean that:

  make && cd t && make

does not work (or worse, might silently use stale information in
test-bin)? Dealing with this is part of the reason the valgrind code
(which similarly sets up a pseudo-installed directory) does everything
in test-lib.sh, and not as part of the make process.

-Peff