On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:36:01PM +0200, Max wrote:

Hi.

I've noticed that we do not use check_PROGRAMS in any of our Makefile.am (happy to be corrected :) so all the tests/ binaries are built during "make" step instead of "make check".

Is this intentional? If so - why? Is this smth we'd rather fix?

I remember at least sometimes having binaries built only during 'make check' ... there are some check_PROGRAMS around our repositories. I personally don't care much either way; having test binaries built during 'make' forces me to fix the test builds along right away, not only when I remember to run 'make check', which can be helpful or get in the way depending on the situation. We can change to use check_PROGRAMS everywhere, but there are other more important things to care about (unless there are packaging / release implications).

~N