From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22120 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2001 18:54:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22085 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2001 18:54:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2001 18:54:34 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 1684QS-0004Py-00; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:54:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:05:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: George France Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, clp@iol.unh.edu Subject: Re: exit status of 'make check' Message-ID: <20011125135448.A16810@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: George France , gdb@sources.redhat.com, clp@iol.unh.edu References: <200111212321.RAA09463@duracef.shout.net> <01112512374200.05740@shadowfax.middleearth> <20011125124718.A25769@nevyn.them.org> <01112513400901.05740@shadowfax.middleearth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01112513400901.05740@shadowfax.middleearth> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00137.txt.bz2 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer