Stop building and testing Tor twice when running distcheck
In commit 9f6b9e28 the steps for putting out a new Tor release changed from running make check
to make distcheck
. With this change there is no need for the dist rule in Makefile.am:76 anymore.
The rule causes Tor to be built and tested twice when make distcheck
is called (once in the current build directory and other time in the temporary distcheck build directory). This is caused by the distcheck
rule calling our dist
rule which calls the internal check
rule which triggers the all
rule.
The removal would make the workflow of testing build configuration changes faster (especially on slower machines) by not having to wait on the first compilation and testing phase which is performed by distcheck anyway.