Hello Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:34:46PM CEST: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> > >>Perhaps things are not all that bad. While 35 of 110 tests fail > >>under Debian Linux, only these two extra are failing under FreeBSD, > >>OS-X, and Solaris: > >> > >>FAIL: tests/mdemo2-make.test > >>FAIL: tests/pdemo-make.test > > > >It would probably be even more helpful if you posted verbose test > >failure output (or excerpts), that would make assigning blame easier, > >I guess. > > Yes. And in fact it would be even better if the test suite always > produced/retained "verbose" output for failed tests so that the > information is always immediately available on demand.
That *is* already the case for the new testsuite. It even tells you at the end where to find the file, and to send it. > The fact > that it does not should be considered to be a bug. For the old testsuite, it will be the case once I have finished the conversion to the Automake parallel-tests driver. No wait long but no time have right now. Gimme a couple of weekends. > I am thinking that the many test failures under Debian Linux are due > to it using older tool versions such as Autoconf 2.61. Facts, not thinking, please. We cannot read your computer's mind. Thanks! Ralf
