Re: [PATCH] use "git init-db" in tests

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:52:27AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > Linkage error of git-init-db (or git wrapper) may leave the file
> > created but leave that in unexecutable form, which could be a
> > valid concern, but that would signal an error to the make during
> > the build stage, and "test" target depends on "all" target.
> 
> BTW, I sometimes wished if it were easier to disable that "test:
> all" dependency and run tests without building things first,
> i.e. deliberately using the already installed binaries, so that
> I can make sure that updated or new tests reproduce and catch
> problems with the existing code first and then make sure the
> binaries built from the updated sources fix the problem.
> 
> Of course that is a very specialized application so a makefile
> variable "make NO_BUILD_BEFORE_TEST=YesPlease test" would not
> make much sense, but I could have done something like this:

I think having "test-standalone" or "test-nobuild" or whatever rule and

	test: all test-nobuild

	test-nobuild:
		...

would be much more elegant.

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