Make install required before make check

[David.Pitt@nab.com.au]

Guys,

Environment details:
gmp-4.2
SunOS tdevs183 5.8 Generic_117350-28 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12
cc: Sun C 5.5 Patch 112760-15 2004/11/10

Your INSTALL doco is inadequate, and the order of commands is weird.

1. The website bangs on about the importance of 'make check', but INSTALL
only mentions it in passing.

2. I tried the traditional configure/make/make test/make install sequence:

$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
...
$ make
...
$ make test
make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
$ make check
make  check-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2'
Making check in tests
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
Making check in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
make  libtests.la t-bswap t-constants t-count_zeros t-gmpmax t-hightomask
t-modlinv t-popc t-parity t-sub
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
make[4]: `libtests.la' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-bswap' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-constants' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-count_zeros' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-gmpmax' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-hightomask' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-modlinv' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-popc' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-parity' is up to date.
make[4]: `t-sub' is up to date.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
make  check-TESTS
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
ld.so.1: t-bswap: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
directory
FAIL: t-bswap
ld.so.1: t-constants: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
directory
FAIL: t-constants
ld.so.1: t-count_zeros: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
directory
FAIL: t-count_zeros
ld.so.1: t-gmpmax: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
directory
FAIL: t-gmpmax
ld.so.1: t-hightomask: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
directory
FAIL: t-hightomask
ld.so.1: t-modlinv: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
directory
FAIL: t-modlinv
ld.so.1: t-popc: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
FAIL: t-popc
ld.so.1: t-parity: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
directory
FAIL: t-parity
ld.so.1: t-sub: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
FAIL: t-sub
==================================
9 of 9 tests failed
Please report to gmp-bugs at swox.com
==================================
make[4]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
make[3]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
make[2]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2'
make: *** [check] Error 2

After some puzzlement (no help from INSTALL), I divined the correct order
is:

./configure
make
make install
make check

This is bizarre, I don't want to install if 'make check' fails. This
shouldn't be hard to fix, update INSTALL when you do. And please include a
'test' target in the Makefile as an alias for 'check'.

Keep up the good work.

Best regards,

David Pitt  | Enterprise Services Technology | National Australia Bank
Limited
Phone +61 3 8641 2014 | Email david.pitt at nab.com.au | Level 6, 500 Bourke
Street, Melbourne


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