Re: Automatically dumping test-suite.log on make check failure

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>]

2014-05-08 19:33 GMT+02:00 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>:

Hi!

On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 19:10:48 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Does anyone know a way to make the automake-generated test suite scripts cat
> the test-suite.log to stderr on failure? It just reports which tests failed but
> hides the actual messages. This is most annoying on buildds which then promptly
> remove the whole build dir, and one has to then tediously find a porter box,
> set up schroot, fetch the package, install build-deps, run the build and then
> finally manually cat the log. Example:

Yes, pass VERBOSE=1 to the «make check» call. This was brought up
recently in the following thread:

  <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/04/msg00322.html>

Awesome, thank you!

Marcin