[PATCH 0/N] test-suite improvement - PASS/FAIL: initial patch

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Tomas Dohnalek wrote:

> > (An order-only prerequisite
> > 
> > tests-collect-results: | tests xtests
> > 
> > might do the job, I think.)
> 
> but this solution has disadvantage - if rule `tests' is made with errors, rule
> `tests-collect-results' will not proceed. But I can't figure out any way out.

Maybe

check:
	-$(MAKE) tests
	$(tests-collect-results)

where tests-collect-results is a variable (defined with define/endef) with 
the relevant commands in, used in all rules that need it?

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Joseph S. Myers
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