Re: [PATCH] Improve timing of generation of generated test scripts.

[Stefano Lattarini]

At Monday 08 March 2010, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
> 
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 05:28:19PM CET:
> > Anothor small cosmetic patch; it adds the list of generated tests
> > ($(parallel_tests)) to the check_SCRIPTS variable, so that all
> > the automatically generated tests are created before starting to
> > run any test script in the testsuite.
> 
> That this is not done is on purpose: to demonstrate lazy updating.
> In this case, it does not help all that much because test generation
> is very fast, but it serves as example anyway; see e.g.,
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/11495>.
Thanks for the information.  So my patch "fixed" a wanted behaviour, as
I suspected.

But what would you think about adding a convenience target `generated-tests'
to the Makefile so that one can easily regenerate all the generated test scripts
without having to find out their names?  Then we could also add a brief comment
telling why $(TESTS) is not in check_SCRIPTS, and why `check' doesn't  depend
on the `generated-tests' target.  WDYT?

Regards,
    Stefano