Re: [PATCH 3/4] mk: add new test-run make rule

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 2/15/2017 5:07 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 03:26:31PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> Since "make test" and "make test-build" does dependency resolving, they
>> check for all dependent components (lib and drivers) which takes a few
>> seconds.
>>
>> This is a good feature during development, but if the target is just
>> running unit test, that step is unnecessary, it is possible to compile
>> onece and run unit test multiple times, without checking any code update
>>
>> For this purpose, a new make rule "make test-run" added. Which just runs
>> the unit test, expects that unit test already compiled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>> ---
> Sorry, I just don't see the point of having an extra command to maintain
> and document for the sake of a few seconds on a unit test run. How long
> does the run itself take compared to the time to check dependencies? 

It is matter of choice, it does not take much time for "make test", but
still I thought it is handy to have a rule only to run the test.

I don't expect much maintenance cost with this, also I don't have strong
opinion to keep it.

> 
> /Bruce
>