Problems with "make check"

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:

Phil> You're not the first.  :-) It would require a one-line change to
Phil> automake's $share/am/dejagnu.am, and I'm not sure what else.

That should be it.  However, that's automake 1.4.  I doubt the current
maintainer would want to do another 1.4.x release.  libgcj already has
a mini-fork though; you could put it there.

The code in there is a little weird in another way:

	runtest=$(RUNTEST); \
## If runtest can't be found, print a warning but don't die.  It is
## pointless to cause a failure if the tests cannot be run at all.
	if $(SHELL) -c "$$runtest --version" > /dev/null 2>&1; then \
	  l='$(DEJATOOL)'; for tool in $$l; do \
	    $$runtest $(AM_RUNTESTFLAGS) $(RUNTESTDEFAULTFLAGS) $(RUNTESTFLAGS); \
	  done; \
	else echo "WARNING: could not find \`runtest'" 1>&2; :;\

This seems backwards now.  I mean, wouldn't you want a failure if you
can't run the tests?  So that you know they didn't get run?

Some of this older code just copied existing practice, though,
independent of whether said practice made sense.

Tom