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Test failure halts make with an error


From: Braden McDaniel
Subject: Test failure halts make with an error
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:24:47 -0500

Is it "normal" for a test failure in a directory to halt make with an
error? Certainly I could use "make -k" to keep going; but this behavior
is not what I would have expected. My test loop looks like this:

        proc run_parse_tests { worlds } {
            foreach world $worlds {
                set test $world
                if [catch { parse_start $world }] {
                    fail "$test"
                } else {
                    pass "$test"
                }
            }
        }

... and parse_start looks like this:

        proc parse_start { world } {
            global tool
            exec ../$tool < $world
        }

The behavior of the tool (parse) is to return nonzero if it encounters
bad input.

Should a tool started in ${tool}_start not return nonzero to signify
test failure (as opposed to an unexpected error)? Is there some other
way I should be running the tool? Or is it my expectations that need
adjustment?

-- 
Braden McDaniel                           e-mail: <address@hidden>
<http://endoframe.com>                    Jabber: <address@hidden>





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