[svn-r18985] Test feature: (bugs 1919)

Problem: some launching command like yod (and sometimes mpirun), do not pass
back the exit code of the executables back to the shell. It always returns 0
if it can launch the executable. This cause tests that expect non-zero exit
code to fail incorrectly.

Short term Solution:
Added the feature that if $RUNSERIAL_NOEXITCODE is defined, do not
test conditions that rely on non-zero exit code.

Tests:
dove-linux using RUNSERIAL=thgyod to see the failures and using
$RUNSERIAL_NOEXITCODE=yes to bypass the errors.
Also h5committested.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh b/tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh
index 3f24bdf..e98e67e 100644
--- a/tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh
+++ b/tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ DIFF='diff -c'
 
 nerrors=0
 verbose=yes
+h5haveexitcode=yes	    # default is yes
 
 # The build (current) directory might be different than the source directory.
 if test -z "$srcdir"; then
@@ -51,6 +52,13 @@ OUTDIR=./testfiles
 
 test -d $OUTDIR || mkdir $OUTDIR
 
+# RUNSERIAL is used. Check if it can return exit code from executalbe correctly.
+if [ -n "$RUNSERIAL_NOEXITCODE" ]; then
+    echo "***Warning*** Serial Exit Code is not passed back to shell corretly."
+    echo "***Warning*** Exit code checking is skipped."
+    h5haveexitcode=no
+fi
+
 # Print a "SKIP" message
 SKIP() {
 	 TESTING $H5COPY $@
@@ -200,7 +208,7 @@ H5DIFFTEST_FAIL()
     $RUNSERIAL $H5DIFF_BIN -q "$@" 
     RET=$?
 
-    if [ $RET != 1 ] ; then
+    if [ $h5haveexitcode = 'yes' -a $RET != 1 ] ; then
          echo "*FAILED*"
          nerrors="`expr $nerrors + 1`"
     else