It's quite a common pattern in the autoconf world to have the resulting makefile have rules that verify the build against a test suite. There is no way to run those tests right now. I think it would be nice to have in autoconf and maybe others a way to run tests after build, the failure of which halts packaging. ideas plugin: autoconf accept-if: - make run-unittests - make run-coveragetests or plugin: autoconf test-rules: [ run-unittests, run-coveragetests ]