[Nix-dev] make installcheck - doesn't do make install - on purpose?

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

> On 20 May 2015, at 17:35, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> On 05/20/2015 05:24 PM, Christian Theune wrote:
>> I keep stumbling that in the nix dev-shell I have to manually run
>> make; make install; make installcheck
>> 
>> I keep forgetting to run one of those and hunt down non-existing bugs.
> 
> That's independent of nix(-shell) - it depends on the makefiles you use.
> AFAIK it's typical that "make install" builds files before installation.
> Maybe "make installcheck" is just enough…

Yeah, I’m actually talking about the specific makefiles of “nix” itself in its gloriously self-referencing dev-shell. :)

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