Re: how to change the behaviour of "make check"?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn at glug dot org>]

Ireneusz SZCZESNIAK <Ireneusz.Szczesniak@Colorado.EDU> writes:

   But I only want "make" to ignore errors from running tests, not all
   errors.  My test scripts are automatically generated by "make" and
   then run.  If "make" fails to generate such a script, then I want
   "make" to report the error and stop.

there is a documented Makefile.am var TESTS_ENVIRONMENT which you can use to
not only set various env var variables, but specify a completely different
interpreter aside from the bourne shell, to run the tests.  for example, if
your tests write some debugging info to a separate LOGFILE, then you might use
this script:

#!/bin/sh
# fake-sh --- customized replacement for /bin/sh
/bin/sh "$@"    # first, do it
status=$?       # save the return value
if grep -q REALLYFAIL LOGFILE ; then
  exit $status
else
  exit 0          # fake success
fi
# fake-sh ends here

by specifying

TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = FOO=1 BAR=2 $(top_srcdir_absolute)/fake-sh

(the nicely formatted messages will be wrong (since you are faking success
some of the time), but presumably you are smarter than to believe w/o scrutiny
anything you read on computer screen, like this message.... ;-)

thi