Re: Avoid certain spurious `testsuite' rebuilds

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:10:40PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> We now trigger the TESTSUITE_GENERATED_AT update from check-local, so `make -C
> tests ./testsuite' may build a testsuite using out-of-date tests/ac*.at.  I
> couldn't find a way around this without introducing more serious flaws.

I think that this particuar problem could be fixed by the following patch.

What have I missed?

Stepan

--- tests/Makefile.am.orig      2006-04-06 12:20:16.000000000 +0200
+++ tests/Makefile.am   2006-04-06 12:30:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
              $(TESTSUITE_AT) \
              $(autotest_m4f_dependencies)
        cd $(top_builddir)/lib/autotest && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) autotest.m4f
+       $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(stamp_tgat)
        $(AUTOTEST) -I $(srcdir) suite.at -o address@hidden
        mv address@hidden $@
 
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@
        rm -f *.tmp
        rm -f -r autom4te.cache
 
-check-local: atconfig atlocal $(stamp_tgat) $(TESTSUITE)
+check-local: atconfig atlocal $(TESTSUITE)
        $(SHELL) $(TESTSUITE) $(TESTSUITEFLAGS)
 
 # Run the test suite on the *installed* tree.