bug#42883: Selecting a subset of tests in recursive make causes unnecessary failures

2020-08-21 Thread Karl Berry
at a minimum this behavior should be documented with the test subsets documentation and this work around mentioned. Yes, I agree. Contemplating. Ideally, the subset tests feature design should be updated to play nice with makefile recursion. I think I agree again, but ... not sur

bug#42883: Selecting a subset of tests in recursive make causes unnecessary failures

2020-08-21 Thread Glenn Washburn
Hi Karl, On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:17:13 -0600 Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > I noticed that when specifying a subset of tests to run via the > TESTS environment variable, I could have all tests complete > successfully > > Thanks for the report. That does seem suboptimal, but on the other