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Godmar> Sometimes, tests will fail because they don't compile. Should Godmar> that be a reason to bail out of the framework? Anthony> That's a good point. It definitely shouldn't cause the Anthony> testsuite run to fail. If a testcase doesn't compile because Anthony> the library implementation is wrong, we'll, that should be Anthony> recorded as a testcase failure, but everything else should Anthony> continue as usual. We will need to fix this. I think this will probably be a pain to implement. That's because test case selection, compilation, and execution happen in different places (`choose', Makefile, and test harness respectively). Instead I'd rather make it so that uncompilable test cases will be avoided when appropriate. For instance, we already do this with libjava -- if you specify the `libjava' tag in KEYS, then nothing from java.beans will be built. Anthony> If a particular build failure is cause problems right now, Anthony> you can always exclude test cases with a !java.* KEYS value. I recommend this as a general strategy. This is what the `mauve-TAG' files are for (see README). Tom