testsuite oddity

[Manfred Hollstein]

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