[darcs-users] darcs patch: make test-running targets & docs a littl... (and 1 more)

[Trent W. Buck]

"David Roundy" <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> Sorry, this one came while my email was broken (thank you anti-spammers!).
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> wrote:
>> I'm resending some patches from http://joyful.com/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=darcs-sm
>> that didn't get a response. This bundle contains two patches with darcsweb
>> diff links for easier viewing, and some more description. Feedback welcome.
>>
>> Wed Aug  6 21:03:23 PDT 2008  Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com>
>>  * make test-running targets & docs a little clearer
>>
>> As a newcomer trying to make myself useful by running tests, I found the
>> makefile test targets ("check test", "tests", "bugs", "unit" which only
>> builds the tests, and various "test_" targets) non-obvious. This patch
>> introduces slightly more mnemonic and future-proof "unittests" and
>> "functests" targets, and updates the docs.
>>
>> http://joyful.com/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=darcs-sm;a=commitdiff;h=20080807040323-3c3f9-e00fff45c938b6f074bf5720acf5edfdcdcbc687.gz
>
> I find your refactored targets more confusing, sorry.  make check or
> make test seems perfectly intuitive to me.  In fact, they're standard
> targets.

See also:

    info make 'Standard Targets'
    info make Goals