Re: exit status of 'make check'

Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-25T06:52:01Z

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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