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Re: exit status of 'make check'
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: drow at mvista dot com, france at handhelds dot org
- Cc: clp at iol dot unh dot edu, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:10:49 -0600
- Subject: Re: exit status of 'make check'
I agree with Daniel here, but from a different point of view.
It would be nice if the exit status was, for example:
0 no results are ERROR, WARNING, or FAIL
1 no results are ERROR or WARNING; some results are FAIL
2 some results are ERROR or WARNING
3 the test harness did not run well enough to generate results
(e.g. runtest not found).
(or something like that)
To achieve this result, someone would have to: design a set of exit statuses,
build consensus for it among several user communities, and submit patches to
tools like dejagnu.
That's a lot of work. For the same amount of work, one could implement other
useful features in the test machinery and in the test suite itself. For
instance, I would like to have ERRORs and WARNINGs reported with the test
script filename in them, just like FAILs are.
I do sympathize that the exit status is imprecise and that this can
interfere with large-scale automation.
Michael C