Question

I run a program using Makefile and it is giving me a strange error, although successfully executed. make: *** [test] Error 10

Here is my Makefile code

30 
31 test:
32         @ echo
33         @ echo "Testing Electric Fence."
34         @ echo "After the last test, it should print that the test has PASSED."
35         ./eftest
36         ./tstheap 3072
37         @ echo
38         @ echo "Starting test for time-interval-measurement."
39        export EF_ERRTRACK_START=3; export EF_ERRTRACK_END=5; ./time-interval-measurement-test
40         @ echo
41         @ echo "Electric Fence confidence test PASSED." 
42         @ echo

On execution:

Time interval measurement test: PASSED
make: *** [test] Error 10
-bash-3.2# make test

Answer 1

To workaround that (in case you cannot modify the (return/exit) behaviour of your binaries) use

./exec || /bin/true

.