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Re: [2.20] [6/6] Do not terminate default test runs on test failure
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Brooks Moses <bmoses at google dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:15:54 +0000
- Subject: Re: [2.20] [6/6] Do not terminate default test runs on test failure
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Brooks Moses wrote:
> Other than the documentation comments, this seems good to me -- and the
> overall patch sequence seems a marked improvement over the status quo. Even
> on x86_64, we have a handful of local patches that amount to "delete this test
> because it is broken", and it will be nice to change those to an XFAIL
> validation step instead.
I don't know what "because it is broken" means, but unless it's something
about an environment glibc testing isn't intended to support, it would be
nice to get them sorted out in glibc proper, not in any local patch or
validation step!
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com