On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 2:26 PM Dumitru Ceara via dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> For example when running with more parallel jobs make check may detect
> testsuite compilation errors and report them to stderr but will still
> return a 0 exit code:
>
>   # make check TESTSUITEFLAGS="336-338 -j2"
>   ...
>   ## ------------------------ ##
>   ## ovn 26.09.90 test suite. ##
>   ## ------------------------ ##
>
>   at-groups/337/test-source: line 12: syntax error near unexpected token
> `|'
>   at-groups/337/test-source: line 12: `    test "x$(echo foobar | | grep
> "Status")" = "xStatus: paused"'
>   336: IGMP relay - distributed gateway port -- parallelization=yes --
> ovn_monitor_all=no ok
>   338: MLD snoop/querier/relay -- parallelization=yes --
> ovn_monitor_all=yes ok
>
>   ## ------------- ##
>   ## Test results. ##
>   ## ------------- ##
>
>   All 2 tests were successful.
>
> Check the testsuite stderr output for test related output.
> Note: some of the tools used during "make check" also write to stderr
> (e.g., ovs-pki) so in order to avoid false positives just grep for lines
> related to the tests/testsuite.dir directory.
>
> Spotted during an unrelated review:
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2026-September/435956.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
> ---
>  .ci/linux-build.sh | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/.ci/linux-build.sh b/.ci/linux-build.sh
> index 905c1e793a..10c935771f 100755
> --- a/.ci/linux-build.sh
> +++ b/.ci/linux-build.sh
> @@ -144,15 +144,26 @@ function execute_dist_tests()
>
>  function run_tests()
>  {
> +    local errf="tests/testsuite.stderr"
> +
>      if ! timeout -k 5m -v $TIMEOUT make check \
>          CFLAGS="${COMMON_CFLAGS} ${OVN_CFLAGS}" $JOBS \
>          TESTSUITEFLAGS="$JOBS $TEST_RANGE" RECHECK=$RECHECK \
> -        SKIP_UNSTABLE=$SKIP_UNSTABLE
> +        SKIP_UNSTABLE=$SKIP_UNSTABLE 2> $errf
>      then
>          # testsuite.log is necessary for debugging.
>          cat tests/testsuite.log
>          return 1
>      fi
> +
> +    if grep -q 'tests/testsuite.dir' $errf; then
> +        # Exit early in case testsuite compilation errors have been
> detected.
> +        # In order to make these errors as visible as possible, we don't
> +        # return and instead we exit directly.
> +        echo "Potential test compilation errors in stderr output"
> +        cat $errf
> +        exit 1
> +    fi
>  }
>
>  function execute_tests()
> --
> 2.55.0
>
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Looks good to me, thanks.

Acked-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]>
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