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Does merely sending output to stderr legitimately constitute a test failure? This doesn't seem entirely legitimate to me. I send checkpoints to stderr in the ocaml test case (because linking each individual test would be too slow); I was surprised and confused to see it failing this morning, when the exit code in fact correctly reports success. — Gordon On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:32,

Hi all, while writing a testcase thate needed to do a grep containg {, I found that the DejaGNU test framework didn't handle those very well. It's a bit of a fuss to escape accolades properly, but most of all the framework seemed to silently ignore errors in the escaping (and just not run the command then). See [1]. Fixing the framework resulted in 80 of the tests failing. I spent the