make check fails to complete

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, NightStrike wrote:
> make[1]: *** [check-binutils] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/build/binutils/build-x86_64-pc-linux'
> make: *** [do-check] Error 2
>
>
> And make terminates, instead of continuing to test the rest.  Is this
> supposed to happen?

I suppose so...  For presumed clean test-results (not too hard
to maintain with binutils, thankfully), it makes for easily
scriptable behavior, so I'm happy with it as-is, considering:

>  Will 1 failure preclude running any additional
> tests?

Use "make -k check".

brgds, H-P