Ireneusz SZCZESNIAK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
