Re: new Makefile target

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 01:37:57PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I've just added support for a new Makefile target: xcheck (also
> xtests).  This target is a superset of check but it will also run tests
> defined using the xtests variables (instead of tests).
> 
> The goal is to define using xtests some tests which cannot generally be
> run because they assume a "sane" environment.
> 
> As a first test in this category I've added the test Zack provided for
> the RPC problem.  This test certainly cannot be run in general but
> everybody here should be able to run it.
> 
> This means that everybody here should from now on use
> 
>   make && make xcheck
> 
> instead of
> 
>   make && make check
> 
> Let me know if you find any problems.

It doesn't work for me:

make -j 4 -C manual xtests
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/glibc/libc/manual'
make[4]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `xtests'.  Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/glibc/libc/manual'
make[3]: *** [manual/xtests] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/glibc/libc'
make[2]: *** [xcheck] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/build/gnu/glibc/build-i686-linux'

H.J.