What does “make check” check?

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Hi there,

What exactly does “make check” do? Or can anyone point me to its documentation?
When it detects a warning or failure, will it exit with non-zero value?

Thanks!

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tried executing it, it's hardly silent ?

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hi Frollic,

Thanks for your response.
Yes, I’ve ran “make check” and examined the output.
The output tells entering and leaving package directories, not what it is actually verifying.

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Read make manuals to add more verbose output. It is faster than backtracing makefile includes.

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make check basically acts as an integrity check on the build system's output.

Try adding -d for lots of debug print: make -d check for full commentary.