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| author | Explorer09 <explorer09@gmail.com> | 2017-01-01 21:49:07 +0800 |
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| committer | Will Estes <westes575@gmail.com> | 2017-01-20 11:06:06 -0500 |
| commit | da071cfb7a8d28a91664a298c168770be8f32d92 (patch) | |
| tree | 82b149073733f6e938696b28648a5a5161b610ed /tests | |
| parent | dd7c6d4a0ff3d1bf58d76470c337837db0c37886 (diff) | |
test: document automake convention for skipped exit status.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests')
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/README | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/README b/tests/README index 43387f4..f1b9ba0 100644 --- a/tests/README +++ b/tests/README @@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ stderr, which will have been redirected to the log file created by the automake test suite harness. ** If your test is skipped (e.g., because bison was not found), then - the test should return 2 (two). + the test should return 77 (seventy-seven). This is the exit status that + would be recognized by automake's "test-driver" as _skipped_. ** Once your work is done, submit a patch via the flex development mailing list, the github pull request mechanism or some other |