From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:19:10 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: add a comment
X-Git-Tag: v9.4.0-rc1~512^2~4
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add a comment
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diff --git a/cmake/scripts/run_test.cmake b/cmake/scripts/run_test.cmake
index 63a7f790aa..fcc78c32ba 100644
--- a/cmake/scripts/run_test.cmake
+++ b/cmake/scripts/run_test.cmake
@@ -60,8 +60,12 @@ EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
   )
 
 #
-# Determine the last successful stage of the test:
-# (Possible values are CONFIGURE, BUILD, RUN, DIFF, PASSED)
+# Determine the stage a test reached: Possible values are
+#   CONFIGURE  - the test started with a special configure stage and failed during configure
+#   BUILD      - the test reached the build stage and a compilation error occured
+#   RUN        - the test reached the run stage but the run terminated with an error
+#   DIFF       - the test reached the diff stage but output differed
+#   PASSED     - the test passed all stages
 #
 
 STRING(REGEX MATCH "${TEST}: CONFIGURE failed\\." _configure_regex "${_output}")