Re: GNU make 4.2.91 release candidate available

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Paul,

Am 23.09.2019 um 14:13 schrieb Paul Smith <address@hidden>:
> Unfortunately there's no such thing in the GNU make test suite as
> XFAIL.  I could skip these tests if we are using the built-in glob,
> that's all I can do.

That would be fine.

> I'm not sure what you mean by "the build process stops"... there's no
> build process that involves running the tests as part a pipeline, at
> least none provided by make itself.  Maybe this is an extra build
> process that you are using locally?

Well, if „make check“ does not finish cleanly with exit 0 at least my package 
build
stops and the only thing I can do is to skip the testsuite as a whole which 
seems
wrong as the test deliberately fails. Just skipping the test sounds like the 
best
solution.


Best regards

  — Dago

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