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

2020-08-24 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Glenn, The example is meant to be such that the test X in root and SUBDIR are tests that would be run when not explicitly specifying tests. Yep, I got that. So its to be able to run any test that would be run when not explicitly specifying tests. Clearly yes, it would be desi

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

2020-08-24 Thread Glenn Washburn
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:05:24 -0600 Karl Berry wrote: >> Another issue is that if there is a test X in the root makefile >> and a test X in SUBDIR > > Isn't that fundamentally not supported, or supportable? I admit I > don't actually know if there's any history about it, but using the > same name