A failure during "make test" should be signalled to the caller by means of a non-zero exit code. Without that signal, it's very hard to run the regression test suite in an automated fashion.

git-annex used to have a Makefile that ignored make test exit status, but that was fixed in commit dab5bddc64ab4ad479a1104748c15d194e138847, in October 6th. done --Joey

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