build machinery TODO (was: Testsuite and Fortran)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> Then there should be an expert mode, `make check-installed`, or something
>> like that, but I strongly feel that the current default behavior is not
>> appropriate.
> Or make it based on the configured languages.  I'd prefer that over yet
> another obscured target ;-0

It seems our build machinery experts missed that. ;-)

Folks, the issue is that `make check` should only test those languages
that have been configured.

Right now, if a frontend is not configured, `make check` uses the first
binary for that language in the path! :-O

Gerald
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