Eric Lemings wrote:
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Sebor [mailto:msebor@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sebor
>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:41 PM
>> To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org
>> 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