Add switch to disable eager linking of test programs.

* Pass --with-on-demand-check-programs to configure to only build
  test programs when make check is invoked.

configure.ac

@@ -836,6 +836,20 @@ AS_CASE(["$enable_low_mem"],
   [*], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Unrecognized option passed to --enable-low-mem])])
 dnl
 dnl
+dnl add flag to disable automatic creation of test programs
+AC_ARG_WITH([on-demand-check-programs],
+  [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-on-demand-check-programs],
+     [only build test programs when calling make check (default: build during make all)])],
+  [AS_CASE([$withval],
+     [yes|no],,
+     [n],[with_on_demand_check_programs=no],
+     [y],[with_on_demand_check_programs=yes],
+     [AC_MSG_FAILURE([unexpected value for --with-on-demand-check-programs: $withval])])],
+  [with_on_demand_check_programs=no])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([with_on_demand_check_programs],
+  [test x$with_on_demand_check_programs = xyes])
+
+
 AR="${AR:-ar}"
 ARFLAGS="${ARFLAGS:-cru}"
 AC_SUBST([AR])

test/Makefile.am

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ AM_FCFLAGS = $(FPP_INCOPT)$(top_srcdir)/include/f90 \
 
 AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/include $(MPI_C_INCLUDE)
 
-noinst_PROGRAMS = test_qsort \
+check_PROGRAMS = test_qsort \
 	test_insertion_sort \
 	test_bsearch \
 	test_uniform_partition_c \
@@ -69,16 +69,20 @@ if HAVE_POINTER_REMAP
 AM_FCFLAGS += $(FPP_DEFOPT)HAVE_POINTER_REMAP
 endif
 
-noinst_PROGRAMS+= test_strided_extents test_set_repartition_mp \
+check_PROGRAMS+= test_strided_extents test_set_repartition_mp \
 	test_ddp_math_mp \
 	test_graph_dist_mp
 if ENABLE_DISTRIBUTED_ARRAY_C
-noinst_PROGRAMS += \
+check_PROGRAMS += \
 	test_distributed_array_c_mp \
 	test_distributed_array_mp
 endif
 endif
 
+if ! with_on_demand_check_programs
+all: $(check_PROGRAMS)
+endif
+
 LDADD = ../src/libtestdata.la ../src/libscalesppm.la
 
 test_m1d_SOURCES = test_m1d.f90