bug#53427: perror should not errcnt across test files

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Martin Cermak wrote:
> On  Fri  2022-01-21  21:26 , Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>   
> > Martin Cermak wrote:
> >     
> > > There seems to be an old bug originally reported in the Red Hat
> > > bug tracker [1] still present in the dejagnu 1.6.3 sources.
> > > Steps to Reproduce:
> > >
> > >
> > > echo 'perror foo' >a.exp; echo 'pass bar' >b.exp; runtest a.exp b.exp; cat 
> > > testrun.sum
> > >
> > > Actual results:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Patch attached.  Please consider fixing.
> > >       
> > A regression test and fix has been pushed to Savannah on the PR53427 branch,
> > as of commit c5964e8fa2a8c3657cd6f6fef63d43451eedac7d.
> >
> > The supplied patch would have also zeroed the per-target test counts between
> > test files, so it was not usable.  A more-direct solution was applied.
> >
> > Please confirm that this resolves the issue with whatever system originally
> > encountered this bug, if possible.  If so, I will merge the branch and this
> > will be fixed in 1.6.4.
> >     
>
>
> Jacob, your patch seems to work for me.

Merged; the patch has landed for 1.6.4.

-- Jacob