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Re: exit status of 'make check'


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


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