Re: combined report for make check?

2013-01-22 Thread Karl Berry
With a non-recursive, top level Makefile. Quick example: So, replace a nicely separated source setup with munging together the information about everything in one place? Thanks for the suggestion, but that seems like a major step backwards in maintainability to me, so I'll decline. Life goe

Re: combined report for make check?

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/22/2013 12:09 AM, Karl Berry wrote: > This would require to change the 'check-recursive' targets not to > share the same code with the other '*-recursive' targets. I really > don't want to go there. > > Totally reasonable :). > > The best solution is on the user-side IMHO:

Re: combined report for make check?

2013-01-21 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Lattarini writes: > The best solution is on the user-side IMHO: fix the build system to > use less (ideally none) make recursion. Both the parallel and serial > testsuite harness should support that setup OOTB. It would be nice if automake had some more features for that... E.g., if I h

Re: combined report for make check?

2013-01-21 Thread Karl Berry
This would require to change the 'check-recursive' targets not to share the same code with the other '*-recursive' targets. I really don't want to go there. Totally reasonable :). The best solution is on the user-side IMHO: fix the build system to use less (ideally none) make

Re: combined report for make check?

2013-01-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Karl. On 01/20/2013 11:20 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Especially for packages which run make check in several subdirectories > (e.g., texinfo), Nelson Beebe made the suggestion that it would be > helpful if there was an "overall" textual report of success or failure, > and not just the exit status.

combined report for make check?

2013-01-20 Thread Karl Berry
Especially for packages which run make check in several subdirectories (e.g., texinfo), Nelson Beebe made the suggestion that it would be helpful if there was an "overall" textual report of success or failure, and not just the exit status. Something like "ALL TESTS PASSED" vs. "FAILED TESTS". Lea