[vlc-devel] Forwarding Gentoo patches.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:19:45 +0200, Alexis Ballier <aballier at gentoo.org>
wrote:
>> > I never understood why
>> > this check is in the 'check' target and not 'distcheck' by the way.
>> 
>> Code test suite belongs in check, not distcheck.
> 
> Except this is not code but headers from the tarball that, AFAIK, are
> not generated. These will not change at all after 'dist', making it a
> perfect candidate for distcheck.

Headers is code, and code is checked with check. distcheck checks the
build system, not the code.

Personally, I use check to test my changes on git, not distcheck (unless
it's hard-core Makefile stuff).

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