Hi, somewhere between automake-1.11 and automake-1.14 the default for handling "make check" changed from "serial-tests" to "parallel-tests" - which sounds harmless, but has the interesting side effect of hiding the output of all (potentially parallel-run) test scripts until the summary at the end, and even then, only printing the summary, not the detail output.
I can see that this looks much more pretty (and colours, wooh!), but
for my day-to-day regression testing and for analyzing buildbot failures,
this just adds extra steps to figure out what it is doing right now, and
where and why it failed this time - especially in the buildbot case, the
difference is "the reason is right in the mail" vs "I need to login to
the buildbot machine, go to the right build directory (of many), and
grab the log file from there".
Fortunately, there is an automake option for this, which I'd propose to
enable... (well hidden inside "info automake-1.14" -> "Options")
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index b7980e0..02fa392 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
# Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com>
#
+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = serial-tests
+
MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = \
$(srcdir)/Makefile.in
... which brings back the old behaviour.
I'm not sure whether it can be passed on an "autoreconf -vif" command
line, and if yes, how, but I presume that really nobody who bothers to
run "make check" will be bothered by the normal test output - and especially
nobody who bothers to set up a t_client.rc test rig in the first place...
But I'm open for discussion and alternative suggestions on this.
gert
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