On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 01:19:56PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote: > When you build git-1.6.0.2 and 'make check', it tries to run sparse and fails if > sparse is not there. But the configure script does not check sparse is > installed. > > I suggest that 'make check' skip the sparse tests if sparse is not there. As I > understand it, they are really more for the developers to get a report of > possible errors in the source code and not to test that the built executables > work, so it would not be dangerous to just skip running those tests for ordinary > users who don't have the tool. The whole point of 'make check' is to run 'sparce' on all files. Granted, you may not have 'sparce' installed, but then why do you want to run 'make check'? It makes no sense. If you want to build and to test the resulting binaries then you run 'make test'. Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
