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Re: testsuite oddity
- To: Marc dot Espie at liafa1 dot liafa dot jussieu dot fr
- Subject: Re: testsuite oddity
- From: Manfred Hollstein <manfred at s-direktnet dot de>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:46:08 +0100 (MET)
- Cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199811240047.QAA23010@kankakee.wrs.com> <199811241345.OAA08042@quatramaran.ens.fr>
- Reply-To: manfred at s-direktnet dot de, Manfred dot Hollstein at ks dot sel dot alcatel dot de
On Tue, 24 November 1998, 14:45:33, espie@quatramaran.ens.fr wrote:
> There is an annoying `feature' of the testsuite. If by any chance you get
> a regression in the libio/libstdc++ tests, the corresponding call to runtest
> actually returns an error... this does stop a make check dead in its tracks.
>
> It might be a good idea to change that: a make check is the kind of things
> you start before going to bed on some machines, and you expect to read the
> report in the morning.
> Maybe the regressions are trivial and should be fixed before going on,
> but then maybe they're not, and the person running the test is just trying
> to send regular reports to this list... this might discourage him.
Passing `-k' as in
$ make -k check
should do want you want.
manfred