[tlbuild] asy2.42

[John Bowman]

This works the way you want (already in git):

test: asy FORCE
./wce
$(MAKE) -C tests

check: test

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     I didn't know we even had a target "make test".
>
> Indeed, you don't have an explicit target "test". But (GNU) make defines
> an implicit target foo if it can find a compilable source foo.c[c] (or
> foo.p or foo.whatever -- there's a long list). Which it does because of
> your vpath declaration.
>
>     Making test a synonym for check doesn't inhibit the compilation of
>     this file
>
> An explicit definition of a test target should override the implicit
> definition.
>
>     but making swapping the roles of check and test
>     surprisingly works.
>
> I don't understand, but it is strongly desirable for "make check"
> to behave as it always has, i.e., to run the test suite. "check" is the
> standard target name in the GNU/autotools world. (I wish rms had chosen
> "test" instead, but he didn't.)
>
> Rename the prc/test.cc file would also get rid of the
> weirdness. --thanks, k.
>
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