From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:32:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] build dashless "test-bin" directory similar to installed bindir
Message-ID: <7vaay6f4ce.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091128194910.GA17605@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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)?

Why can't t/Makefile have a dependency on its 'default' target that goes
up and prepares test-bin/, i.e. "cd .. && make test-bin-stuff"?