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Re: Do not terminate default test runs on test failure
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Do not terminate default test runs on test failure
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> Whether to exit with error status if there were FAILs, or only if there
> were ERRORs, was one of my questions on the first version of this patch,
> where the only previous comment was from Brooks preferring FAILs not to
> cause an error status
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-02/msg00301.html>. I'm happy
> either way; error exit for any FAILs is just two extra grep lines like
> those ensuring error exit for any ERRORs.
The status quo is that 'make check' only exits zero if all tests passed.
So please preserve that.