Further update 'make distcheck-fast'

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"Better highlight 'make distcheck-fast'" was the initial submission, before the
changes I made after Matthias Maennich's review.  So here they are again.

	* CONTRIBUTING: Further update 'make distcheck-fast'.

Suggested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
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Thomas Schwinge 2021-12-14 17:44:53 +01:00 committed by Dodji Seketeli
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@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ there.
Here, "make distcheck-fast" is a variant of the standard "make distcheck".
It compresses with "--fast" instead of default "--best", and is
significantly faster, given the size of the distribution. You very likely
want to use that one for local regression testing.
want to use that one for local regression testing. (However, don't use
"make distcheck-fast" to create artifacts for distribution.)
You can also launch this in parallel by doing:
@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ into the ABIXML format and then compares the ABI internal
representation gathered from the libabigail.so binary against the one
gathered from the ABIXML format. The two should be equal if
everything goes right. This is an important regression test. The
problem is that it can takes twice as much time as "make distcheck-fast".
problem is that it can take a considerable amount of time.
So we've put it into its own separate target.
So, to be complete the regression checking command to run against your