Do they check for warrants when you get a drivers license?

I live in Tennessee and I have been researching this online and found a huge mix of answers so hopefully this will help someone. I do have an active warrant and finally decided to just go and get the ID, if they arrested me then so be it. I couldn't find any real answers online and I was just fed up. I went today, got the ID, and had NO PROBLEM at all. So all of the people out there saying yes they do....or the "law enforcement" people on here......they did not do anything at the Tennessee DMV. Anyone with a warrant knows they need to clear it up so people can stop posting that as a response as well. Hopefully this will help someone out there because I couldn't find any answers at all.