Re: Failing Java tests due to no JRE

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 14:03:11 -0700, Rik wrote:
> You could introduce some in-band communication method.  Right now I believe
> test.m takes the test code, wraps it in a function, evals the function into
> existence, and then executes the new function in a try/catch block.  I
> don't believe the created function has a return argument, but you could
> bolt one on and use that to pass information back to test.m.  And certainly
> there is no rush to do this.

Yes, good point. The test block could return a specific value to signal
that the test should be marked as "skipped".

Maybe better would be to throw an error with a specific error-id that
could be caught and recognized as a runtime "skip" signal.

-- 
mike