maint: "make distcheck" now runs the root-only tests

* Makefile.am (root-check): New overridable variable and rule.
(distcheck-hook): Depend on it.

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 3a69832..39c1d01 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -28,7 +28,15 @@ parted.spec: parted.spec.in
        mv $@-tmp $@
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = parted.spec
 
-distcheck-hook:
+.PHONY: root-check
+root-check:
+       sudo $(MAKE) check
+
+# Not everyone who runs "make distcheck" will want to or even
+# be able to run the root tests.  If you want to skip them,
+# run make like this: "make distcheck root-check="
+root-check ?= root-check
+distcheck-hook: $(root-check)
        $(MAKE) my-distcheck
 
 ### ABI Checking scripts ###