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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2008-09-05 22:59:17 +0000
commitcdeb24bb05359ec7550c327f44e8b1f346b9d776 (patch)
treee51bd45494ce4ac699dfab7c3e28f2a0f5930925
parent187ac1bda4fdab0dba7df4a9362c48edf6b55ba4 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-cdeb24bb05359ec7550c327f44e8b1f346b9d776.tar.gz
GNU coding guidelines say that ``make check`` should verify the build. That
clashes with what Python's build target did. Rename the target to 'patchcheck' to avoid the culture clash. Closes issue 3758. Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson.
-rw-r--r--Makefile.pre.in2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 349b814818..8451445fef 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ funny:
-o -print
# Perform some verification checks on any modified files.
-check:
+patchcheck:
$(RUNSHARED) ./$(BUILDPYTHON) $(srcdir)/Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py
# Dependencies
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8c246538a8..1ab8581918 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ Tests
- Issue 3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue 3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash with
+ GNU build target guidelines.
+
What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
================================