Re: exit status of 'make check'

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:08:25AM -0500, George France wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> It has been a while since we chatted. I hope you are doing well.
> 
> > > When I ever I do a 'make check' on gdb using the  cvs HEAD tree on either
> > > the intel or Alpha architecture. It always returnes a non-zero exit code.
> > > The testsuites execute and produce a good gdb.log and gdb.sum files.  Has
> > > anybody seen this before??
> >
> > Yes, this is normal.  I just do:
> >
> >   make check || true
> 
> This was not exactly the solution that I was hoping for. :-)  We need to fix 
> this problem.  It would be really useful to know if 'make check' did or did 
> not have an anomaly.
> 
> Any Ideas before I go mucking about?
> 
> Best Regards,

That pretty much means that it did.  You can grep for ^FAIL: to see how
many there are.  I'm hoping to see the GDB testsuite pass entirely for
some target, someday...

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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