The previous behavior ignored an error and the output from grub-mkrescue. This made it a pain to discover that grub-mkrescue was the reason that tests which rely on grub-shell were failing. Even after discovering grub-mkrescue was the culprit, there was no output to indicate why it was failing. It turns out that grub-mkrescue is a thin wrapper around xorriso. So if you do not have xorriso installed it will fail with an error message about not being able to find xorriso.
This change will allow grub-mkrescue output to be written to stderr, only if grub-mkrescue fails. If grub-mkrescue succeeds, there will be no output from grub-mkrescue so as not to interfere with the functioning of tests. This change should have no effect on the running of tests or other uses of grub-shell as it only modifies the error path. Also, if grub-mkrescue fails, the script exits early. Since grub-shell needs the iso image created by grub-mkresue to boot the qemu instance, a failure here should be considered fatal. Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <developm...@efficientek.com> --- tests/util/grub-shell.in | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/util/grub-shell.in b/tests/util/grub-shell.in index 602b16f3e..9d8c417da 100644 --- a/tests/util/grub-shell.in +++ b/tests/util/grub-shell.in @@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ Report bugs to <bug-g...@gnu.org>. EOF } +# Exec given argv and only show its output on STDERR if it returns an +# error status. +exec_show_error () { + v=`$@ 2>&1` + ret=$? + if [ "$ret" != 0 ]; then + echo "$v" >&2 + exit $ret + fi +} + . "${builddir}/grub-core/modinfo.sh" qemuopts="${GRUB_QEMU_OPTS}" serial_port=com0 @@ -383,13 +394,15 @@ if test -z "$debug"; then fi if [ x$boot != xnet ] && [ x$boot != xemu ]; then - pkgdatadir="@builddir@" "@builddir@/grub-mkrescue" "--output=${isofile}" "--override-directory=${builddir}/grub-core" \ + pkgdatadir="@builddir@" \ + exec_show_error "@builddir@/grub-mkrescue" "--output=${isofile}" \ + "--override-directory=${builddir}/grub-core" \ --rom-directory="${rom_directory}" \ --locale-directory="@srcdir@/po" \ --themes-directory="@srcdir@/themes" \ $mkimage_extra_arg ${mkrescue_args} \ "/boot/grub/grub.cfg=${cfgfile}" "/boot/grub/testcase.cfg=${source}" \ - ${files} >/dev/null 2>&1 + ${files} || exit $? fi if [ x$boot = xhd ]; then if [ "${grub_modinfo_target_cpu}-${grub_modinfo_platform}" = arm64-efi ] || [ "${grub_modinfo_target_cpu}-${grub_modinfo_platform}" = arm-efi ]; then -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel