I had the idea that it would be helpful to put basic system information into test-suite.log, as shown below. Although most people reporting bugs are good about including their system info, not everyone does. And details are good.
I figured the output of uname -a and /etc/os-release || /etc/issue would be enough to go on. That certainly won't cover all systems, but if nothing shows up, we'll be no worse off. I eliminated the local host name from uname -a for privacy, just in case. I don't think anything else in there is at all problematic. I don't think anything anything parses test-suite.log with such rigidity that adding some lines near the beginning will cause problems, and automake's own make check didn't care, but I guess I don't know for sure. If anyone sees a problem with this, let me know. --thanks, karl. ============================================ GNU Automake 1.16.90: ./test-suite.log ============================================ # TOTAL: 1 # PASS: 0 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 1 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 Linux 5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jan 24 23:11:18 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux NAME="Rocky Linux" VERSION="9.3 (Blue Onyx)" ID="rocky" ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora" VERSION_ID="9.3" PLATFORM_ID="platform:el9" PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 9.3 (Blue Onyx)" ANSI_COLOR="0;32" . contents:: :depth: 2 --- a/lib/am/check.am +++ b/lib/am/check.am @@ -356,11 +359,25 @@ $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): $(TEST_LOGS) result_count $$1 "XPASS:" $$xpass "$$red"; \ result_count $$1 "ERROR:" $$error "$$mgn"; \ }; \ +## +## Write some basic system info in the log. + output_system_information () \ + { \ +## Omit the hostname for privacy. In practice it's a single word? + echo; \ + (uname -a | awk '{$$2=""; print}') 2>&1; \ + if test -r /etc/os-release; then \ + sed 8q /etc/os-release; \ + elif test -r /etc/issue; then \ + cat /etc/issue; \ + fi; \ + }; \ ## Write "global" testsuite log. { \ echo "$(PACKAGE_STRING): $(subdir)/$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)" | \ $(am__rst_title); \ create_testsuite_report --no-color; \ + output_system_information; \ echo; \ echo ".. contents:: :depth: 2"; \ echo; \