diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 57c9a3a..e99ffe5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ CHANGELOG
   recognition of expected errors under certain circumstances.
 - Fixed a portability problem (for gcc 3.3.x) in the testwave application.
 - Enforced that #if/#endif are balanced file wise.
-
+- Changed the command line arguments for the Wave testrun to use absolute 
+  directories.
+- Changed the test application to return a value != zero if one of the given 
+  config files were not found.
+  
 Thu Apr  7 10:07:45 WEDT 2005
 Version 1.1.16
 - Fixed a bug in the white space eating component, which prevented a C++ 
diff --git a/test/testwave/testwave.cpp b/test/testwave/testwave.cpp
index 4570c48..6aecb3c 100644
--- a/test/testwave/testwave.cpp
+++ b/test/testwave/testwave.cpp
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ int
 main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     int error_count = 0;
+    int config_file_error_count = 0;
     try {
     // analyze the command line options and arguments
         po::options_description desc_cmdline ("Options allowed on the command line");
@@ -129,7 +130,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
             // parse a single config file and store the results, config files
             // may only contain --input and positional arguments 
                 po::variables_map cvm;
-                cmd_line_utils::read_config_file(*cit, desc_hidden, cvm);
+                if (!cmd_line_utils::read_config_file(*cit, desc_hidden, cvm))
+                    ++config_file_error_count;
 
             // correct the paths parsed into this variables_map
                 if (cvm.count("input")) {
@@ -198,5 +200,5 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
         return (std::numeric_limits<int>::max)() - 2;
     }
 
-    return error_count;
+    return error_count + config_file_error_count;
 }