Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-14 Thread orion
Doing gdb sessions in the build tree is pretty tricky because of all the setup (e.g., setting environment variables) you have to do first. So I don't recommend it except for rare emergencies where you get errors in the build tree but not the install tree. Furthermore, ctest doesn't have a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-08-14 08:14-0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that I'm building RPM packages and so it's pretty much impossible to do the testing in the install tree. I'll work on a patch. Thanks in advance, Orion. I suggest instead of using --debug, you use --extra-verbose as the name of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:14:25AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing gdb sessions in the build tree is pretty tricky because of all the setup (e.g., setting environment variables) you have to do first. So I don't recommend it except for rare emergencies where you get errors in the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-13 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:45:39PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: On 2008-08-11 19:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2008-08-11 14:43-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: Wishlist: a verbose testing option that would output the actual command executed for each test. I have implemented a proof of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-13 Thread Orion Poplawski
Andrew Ross wrote: In principal I like the idea of being able to see the examples as they are exectuted. I wonder whether the whole command line is necessary though. Perhaps just echoing the example name would suffice and would prevent too much unnecessary clutter in the output? For testing

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-08-13 22:13+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: In principal I like the idea of being able to see the examples as they are exectuted. I wonder whether the whole command line is necessary though. Perhaps just echoing the example name would suffice and would prevent too much unnecessary clutter in

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-08-13 15:19-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: Andrew Ross wrote: In principal I like the idea of being able to see the examples as they are exectuted. I wonder whether the whole command line is necessary though. Perhaps just echoing the example name would suffice and would prevent too much

Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

2008-08-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-08-11 19:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2008-08-11 14:43-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: Wishlist: a verbose testing option that would output the actual command executed for each test. I have implemented a proof of concept of this idea (revision 8636) for our C examples. Please try it