diff mbox series

Further update 'make distcheck-fast'

Message ID 20211214164453.3237230-1-thomas@codesourcery.com
State Committed
Headers
Series Further update 'make distcheck-fast' |

Commit Message

Thomas Schwinge Dec. 14, 2021, 4:44 p.m. UTC 
  What got pushed in recent commit 497357cfd5793e5364a92080d9fae40cf94dc7dd
"Better highlight 'make distcheck-fast'" was the initial submission, before the
changes I made after Matthias Maennich's review.  So here they are again.

	* CONTRIBUTING: Further update 'make distcheck-fast'.

Suggested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
---
 CONTRIBUTING | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Dodji Seketeli Dec. 17, 2021, 7:23 p.m. UTC | #1 
Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> a écrit:

> What got pushed in recent commit 497357cfd5793e5364a92080d9fae40cf94dc7dd
> "Better highlight 'make distcheck-fast'" was the initial submission, before the
> changes I made after Matthias Maennich's review.  So here they are again.
>
> 	* CONTRIBUTING: Further update 'make distcheck-fast'.
>
> Suggested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>

Applied to master.

[...]

Cheers,
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index f7cef0a8..24a483b2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@  there.
 Here, "make distcheck-fast" is a variant of the standard "make distcheck".
 It compresses with "--fast" instead of default "--best", and is
 significantly faster, given the size of the distribution.  You very likely
-want to use that one for local regression testing.
+want to use that one for local regression testing.  (However, don't use
+"make distcheck-fast" to create artifacts for distribution.)
 
 You can also launch this in parallel by doing:
 
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@  into the ABIXML format and then compares the ABI internal
 representation gathered from the libabigail.so binary against the one
 gathered from the ABIXML format.  The two should be equal if
 everything goes right.  This is an important regression test.  The
-problem is that it can takes twice as much time as "make distcheck-fast".
+problem is that it can take a considerable amount of time.
 So we've put it into its own separate target.
 
 So, to be complete the regression checking command to run against your