I currently have 10 tests in my autotoolset project. Any time I make a change to one of my src/ files and recompile, each test is rebuilt and linked. This is starting to have a considerable impact on my development time.
What is the best way to conditionally build binary programs, tests or otherwise, with GNU autotoolset? For instance, if I'm working in test/check_curl_requestheaders.cc, and I make a change, I am only going to want to recompile the library and then that one test and none of the other binaries.
I saw some mention of using automake conditionals (like WANTS_XXX) but I am not 100% certain that is what I'm looking for nor am I sure how that would be configured by autoconf.
I am sort of hoping for something that will end up looking like this:
./configure
make test/check_curl_requestheaders
or
./configure --only-build=test/check_curl_requestheaders
make
Pointers?
EDIT I'm not doing a configure before every make. If I make changes to check_curl_requestheaders
, only check_curl_requestheaders
is rebuilt as one would expect. The problem is that if I'm working on the RequestHeaders part of the library, and make a change to say, src/curl/requestheaders.cc, all of the the tests and other binaries are rebuilt, not just the check_curl_requestheaders
. That is taking far too long, and that is what I am trying to avoid. If I have a dozen binaries, is there a way to rebuild only one of them?