[2.20] [1/6] Generate .test-result files for ordinary tests

[Brooks Moses]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Brooks Moses wrote:
>> Would there be any utility in recording the values of the nonzero exit codes
>> somewhere?
>
> Where?  Not on the PASS/FAIL lines, as the text after "PASS: " or "FAIL: "
> is not meant to depend on the result of the test, to facilitate
> comparison.

You could put it in the .test-result file in a way that is discarded
when these files are accumulated into the per-directory summary files
-- for instance, you could put it on a second line and only accumulate
the first lines.

For that matter, much of the information in the .test-result file
seems redundant; the $test_name (aside from the directory) is also
encoded in the name of the file itself, the directory is known when
the files are accumulated, and the pass/fail status is all that
remains.  So that suggests that one option is to replace the
.test-result file with a .test-exit-code file that only contains the
exit code (and an xfail notation if relevant), and for the
accumulation script to convert that into PASS/FAIL tags.  That may be
a bit extreme, though.

- Brooks