Making dejagnu return status codes

[Reuben Thomas]

 I wrote to bug-dejagnu some time ago:

> I am having some problems with a DejaGnu test suite, but
> the problem itself is not what I'm writing about. At the end of
> a testsuite, I get the following:

> [snip]
> note that DejaGnu itself does not fail, and the make
> continues; in this case, it finishes successfully.

Martin Muenstermann just pointed out to me:

> You need to pass --status to runtest.

> I'll never understand why this has not become the default.
> See exit_error in runtest.exp

Would it make sense to add --status to the flags passed to runtest by automake?

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