On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org> wrote: > The atomicity tests were failing here because I didn't have GDB > installed, so I've added it as a prereq. Sorry, I've had a patch to address that sitting around, but hadn't sent it out (and I only fixed that one test). I would suggest a somewhat gentler approach than "error", though: if test_expect_success "prereq: gdb is present" "which gdb"; then test_set_prereq GDB fi (Plus the two test-lib patches I just sent: id:1305206080-17461-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu and id:1305206110-17511-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu). "error" has the disadvantage that it doesn't get counted as a failed test in the final tally (because, indeed, it's not a failed test) and also that it immediately terminates the test script so it's not actually using the prereq system (which is fine for the atomicity test since all of the test cases depend on GDB, but the pattern I'm proposing works for finer-grained prerequisites). Plus, with the above approach, if you don't have a prerequisite, the final tally shows one failed test plus some number of skipped tests (and the total number of tests never changes), which I would argue is cleaner.