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Re: making --status the default
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Simon Marchi |
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Re: making --status the default |
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Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:19:57 -0500 |
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On 16-02-14 10:18 PM, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Earlier this year, there was a discussion about the understated
> --status option. This option causes runtest to exit with an exit code
> of 1 ("failure" to the shell) if an error is encountered in any of the
> Tcl scripts. The thread starts here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dejagnu/2016-01/msg00000.html
>
> I would like to make --status the default so that runtest always exits
> with an exit status of 2 if an error is encountered by Tcl. This
> seems like sensible behaviour and enables users to respond differently
> from their Makefiles, build systems, etc.
>
> I plan to leave the option there for backward compatibility, but it
> would not do anything.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers, Ben
I obviously agree :).
Thanks,
Simon