[PATCH] Add compile testing to glibc test framework.

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/07/2016 07:28 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> Previously these kinds of tests would result in the testsuite failing
>> to run to completion because compiler errors are treated as harness
>> failures.
>
> I don't actually see this as a problem - that is, I don't see why any
> compile failure should be hard to fix for some system-specific reason.
> I'd rather just add such tests as normal tests, that break the build if
> they fail.

What's annoying with that is that you lose test summary reporting.  If 
this was somehow fixed (without impacting make running times, please), I 
think there wouldn't much of an incentive to add such compile-time testing.

Florian