bug#11791: recheck and compilation error

[Peter Johansson]

Hello automakers,

I've noticed the following behavior from 'make recheck'.

If I run 'make check' and one test fails
$ make check
...
FAIL: foo.test

I modify the test
$ edit foo.c
and rerun the test suite with
$ make recheck -k
foo.c:1: error: parse error before '}' token
make[1]: *** [foo.o] Error 1
make[1]: Target `test-suite.log' not remade because of errors.
make: *** [recheck] Error 2

which is now interrupted as I introduced a compilation error. If I now 
try edit the test again and rerun test suite with
$ make recheck -k
I get
# TOTAL: 0
# PASS:  0
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0

that is, the failed test is not rerun. I suppose the reason is that it 
was never run last time and that there exist no trs file, but this is 
IMHO suboptimal and unexpected. I would expect that make recheck also 
includes tests that failed due to compilation problems or at least tests 
that failed last time they were run.

Please find a script attached illustrating the behavior.

This is with automake 1.12.

Cheers,
Peter

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Peter Johansson

recheck.sh
Description: Bourne shell script