From 912f9980d233961c48a225cce2657f165c98c8ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:12:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: help people who run 'make check' by mistake

The target to run self test is 'make test', but there are people who try
'make check' and worse yet do not have sparse installed.

Suggest 'make test' target when they do not have 'sparse'.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Makefile | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index becd008e04..186a8efd1b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1329,7 +1329,16 @@ check-sha1:: test-sha1$X
 	./test-sha1.sh
 
 check: common-cmds.h
-	for i in *.c; do sparse $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(SPARSE_FLAGS) $$i || exit; done
+	if sparse; \
+	then \
+		for i in *.c; \
+		do \
+			sparse $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(SPARSE_FLAGS) $$i || exit; \
+		done; \
+	else \
+		echo 2>&1 "Did you mean 'make test'?"; \
+		exit 1; \
+	fi
 
 remove-dashes:
 	./fixup-builtins $(BUILT_INS) $(PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPTS)
-- 
2.11.4.GIT