This is an issue with the default shell used by the makefile. Below is my fix. We should probably have a CI machine that checks for these shell-related errors.

diff --git a/gmakefile.test b/gmakefile.test
index c38e37f..ffd7bdb 100644
--- a/gmakefile.test
+++ b/gmakefile.test
@@ -379,10 +379,11 @@ starttime: pre-clean $(libpetscall)
        @$(eval STARTTIME := $(shell date +%s))
 
 report_tests: starttime $(TESTTARGETS)
+ifeq ($(showreport),true)
        @$(eval ENDTIME := $(shell date +%s))
-       -@if test ${showreport} == "true"; then  elapsed_time=$$(($(ENDTIME)- $(STARTTIME))) && \
-       $(PYTHON) $(CONFIGDIR)/report_tests.py -m $(MAKE) -d $(TESTDIR)/counts -t 5 -e $${elapsed_time};\
-    fi
+       elapsed_time=$$(($(ENDTIME)- $(STARTTIME))) && \
+       $(PYTHON) $(CONFIGDIR)/report_tests.py -m $(MAKE) -d $(TESTDIR)/counts -t 5 -e $${elapsed_time};
+endif

Il giorno mar 19 gen 2021 alle ore 20:41 Scott Kruger <kruger@txcorp.com> ha scritto:


I can't reproduce this with the latest master:

hip 1261: git pull
Already up to date.
hip 1262: make -f gmakefile.test test search='notatest'
Using MAKEFLAGS: -- search=notatest
hip 1263:



On 1/19/21 8:19 AM, Stefano Zampini wrote:
Just rebased over latest master and got this

zampins@vulture:~/Devel/petsc$ make -f gmakefile.test test search='notatest'
Using MAKEFLAGS: -- search=notatest
/bin/sh: 1: test: false: unexpected operator

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