Re: exit status of 'make check'

Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-25T18:54:36Z

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:40:09PM -0500, George France wrote:
> We are not discussing, the results of 'runtest'. We are discussing the
> results of 'make check'. Here is another simple example, On 2001-11-22, I
> built the gcc_3.0.2 HEAD branch. 'make check' returned a zero for an exit
> code, but many of the testsuites FAILed.

GCC does this by completely ignoring the exit code of runtest; in other
words, make check will always succeed. I don't think that's an
acceptable step. Do you?

We are discussing the result of runtest, because the DejaGNU
maintainers are the appropriate people to set policy for this sort of
thing.

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer