Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add info about "make check" to the README

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> How about:
> 
>     You can check whether Chicken is functioning correctly by
>     running
> 
>         make <variables you set to build chicken> check
> 
>     For example, of you have built Chicken with
> 
>         make PLATFORM=linux C_COMPILER=clang install
> 
>     just run
> 
>         make PLATFORM=linux C_COMPILER=clang check
> ?
> 
> 
> Or maybe something terser like:
> 
>     You can check whether Chicken is functioning correctly by
>     running
> 
>         make <variables you set to build chicken> check

I prefer the terse variation.  Or perhaps:


   make <vars> check

where <vars> are all the variables you used while building Chicken.

Cheers,
Peter
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