Re: new coreutils snapshot; are they useful?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > might be useful to have some way to run the test suite in a different
> > directory, so that it is easy to run once on NFS and once on local. In
> > particular I remember that on Darwin this was important.
>
> To build and run "make check" using various writable directories
> on file systems of different types, do this:
>
>   for d in $dir_list; do
>     ( cd $d && $cu_srcdir/configure && make && make check )
>   done

Yes, I know about srcdir builds (thanks for the reminder anyway). What I 
would *like* to do is build once, and be able to run just the tests 
somewhere else. (In this case, I am pretty sure I don't have the room to 
do the build where I want to run the tests, anyway.)

--
Matthew
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