Index: lucene/common-build.xml
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--- lucene/common-build.xml	(revision 1682544)
+++ lucene/common-build.xml	(working copy)
@@ -1337,6 +1337,9 @@
 # Do *not* filter stack traces emitted to the console.
 ant -Dtests.filterstacks=false
 
+# Skip checking for no-executed tests in modules
+ant -Dtests.ifNoTests=ignore ...
+
 # Output test files and reports.
 ${tests-output}/tests-report.txt    - full ASCII tests report
 ${tests-output}/tests-failures.txt  - failures only (if any)
@@ -1490,7 +1493,7 @@
       });
       statsFile.delete();
 
-      if (total == 0) {
+      if (total == 0 && !"ignore".equals(project.getProperty("tests.ifNoTests"))) {
         throw new BuildException("Not even a single test was executed (a typo in the filter pattern maybe?).");
       }