Jim Meyering wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > btw, where are the colors coming from ? is that coreutils > > specific or is that a feature of autotest in newer autotools ? i > > love it :) > > They colors in "make check" output are from the combination of > build-aux/check.mk and tests/check.mk. It's specific to coreutils, > for now.
I won't disagree that people may like the colors but personally I find them annoying. Mostly this is because wading through the escape sequences in the logs makes it difficult to find failures. I am rarely watching these in real time and 'grep FAIL:' no longer hits. Here is an example from the buildbot logs so you can see what I am talking about. The escape sequences does not cut-n-paste well either or I would simply show that. http://buildbot.proulx.com:9000/i686%20gnu-linux%20VPATH/builds/1/step-test/0 I would like it if there were a way to disable the escape sequences. But my creativity is at a loss at thinking up a well named environment variable to do this. COREUTILS_TESTS_COLOR=no ?? I am okay if this is an optional configuration and not the default. I would like it if "FAIL:" were displayed again when tests failed. I think that is the more intuitive opposite to the "PASS:" and "SKIP:" strings. Looking for "Error 1" from make seems to be the only way to find failures now. > If enough people tell [EMAIL PROTECTED] that they like it, maybe > it'll end up being added there. Thank the Vaucanson group for their > build-aux/check.mk file. Or perhaps lobby against it. :-) Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
