Andrew Hewus Fresh <andrew@afresh1.com> wrote:

> The use case is only for testing changes to patterns.c to make sure they
> work, since they are not the most obvious to work with.  Which is why I
> added a comment there.

No, the use case is you

    make install

then you test.

What is the problem you are solving?  I've deleted everything else you
wrote since it does not discuss why "make install" is so painful.