[Patch] Don't ignore testsuite errors in Makefile

[Mikael Morin]

On Sunday 09 October 2011 21:12:12 Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 04:32:12PM +0200, Mikael Morin wrote:
> > currently, the testsuite return value is ignored by make. It is a little
> > annoying if one wants to check automatically for regressions as we have
> > to parse the testsuite output.
> > This patch reverts to the normal make behaviour, which is to not ignore
> > commands' return values. Note: As a result the -k flag has to be added to
> > the make command line if one wants the tests to continue after one
> > failure.
> > 
> > OK for trunk?
> 
> Please no.  This is a very bad idea, most of the testsuites on many
> architectures contain some FAILs and a failure from check-parallel-% would
> mean the *.log/*.sum files would be never merged in that case.
> 
> If you really need to propagate the return value (I fail to see how it is
> useful), then you should e.g. store the $? value from $(RUNTEST) in
> check-parallel-% into some file in that directory and have the
> parallelization goal after the merging collect those from the individual
> files and or them all together into the final return value.
Thanks for the tips. I will just keep the patch locally for now.
I don't use parallel testing anyway.

Mikael