[Failed to CC Mike the first time round] This patch series aims to make the testsuite more convenient to run, both for "upstream" development and for integration with package managers. It changes "make check" or "tests/runtests" to do a separate JUST_TESTING build under tests/build. This means you don't have to reconfigure and rebuild after running the test suite. This isn't completely straightforward. If we run a test build in a separate directory, we are required to run *all* builds in a separate directory. So I've set up a default build directory, "./build". I cribbed ax_configure_builddir.m4 from the autoconf archive, and heavily modified it so it actually works. The macro creates a toplevel Makefile which recurses into the build directory. Special handling is provided for "make dist", "make dist-gzip" and "make dist-bzip2". For convenience, the tarballs created in the build directory are moved back into the source directory. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
