Eric Lemings wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Sebor
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Building Tests
Eric Lemings wrote:
I haven't looked to confirm this but it looks like the Makefile(s)
ignore errors building the test programs but the build process still
stops (i.e. exits successfully). I was wondering if the Makefile(s)
shouldn't also continue building the remaining test
programs (i.e. set
MAKEFLAGS=-k before invoking the test Makefile).
I don't think the makefiles ignore build errors.
If you do a build on a platform where one of the test programs fails
to build, the make process will exit and will not build the remaining
test programs but the run target will still try to run these unbuilt
tests.
That's by design so the tests that fail to compile are reported
as such. Otherwise, if exec skipped them, build failures would
not show up in our nightly build results.
[...]
So, I think it makes sense that if the run target tries to run all
tests, then the target that builds the test programs should also
try to build as many test programs as possible. Either that or
make the target that runs each test output dependent on the
respective test program so it only tries to run it if it is up to
date.
The latter could be done.
Martin
