Re: Installing the test programs

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2010-11-08 22:52 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> > > So now when I run test/configure, there is a nice install.test target in
> > > test/Makefile that will install the test programs.  However, if I just
> > > run ./configure in the top level directory, this target in test/Makefile
> > > is empty (as it had been before).  Is that intended?
> >
> > yes - I only intended the test/makefile's install.test target to be
> > used in the package that can be built with test/make-tar.sh
> >
> > To make it optional in the top-level makefile, I'd have to separate that
> > from the default "install" rule.  test-programs seem to be the only thing
> > that most people wouldn't want as part of that rule.
>
> Okay, that makes sense.  I will run test/configure if we ever decide to
> ship the test programs in a Debian package¹.

okay (if there's a lot of need for it, I could redo the top-level 
makefile, but it's done via scripting - not sure how much work).

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