Weird. Is this 'make check' thing BSD-centric?
no. it's a standard part of the gnu build system ...
I've never seen that
recommended for anything in Linux before. What does it do exactly?
per, e.g., <http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~iam/docs/tutorial.html>
"Support for test suites. You can very easily write test suite code,
and by adding one extra line in your `Makefile.am' make a check target
available such that you can compile and run the entire test suite by
running make check."
if i'm reading the makefile correctly, a 'check' target *is* defined
here ...
richard