Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-commit] SF.net SVN: axiom: [370]branches/wh-sandbox

[Waldek Hebisch]

> "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> | On December 4, 2006 10:57 AM Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> | > 
> | > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | > > Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:
> | > > |  ATM test Makefile uses tee command to
> | > > | echo output also to the standard output, but it is 
> | > > > probably better to have only ouput in files.
> | > > 
> | > > It is not clear to me why that would be better.  
> | > > 
> | > Test ouput is of big and of little use when debugging build
> | > problems. For mechanical checking of test results files are
> | > better.
> | > 
> | 
> | I agree that the build should not normally echo the literal
> | output of the tests.
> 
> It does not follow that the output should be suppressed or
> interleaved.
> 

Gaby, did you notice that I wrote about removing 'tee' command
from the test line?  I would call this avoiding duplication,
you chose to call this "suppressing output".

BTW: One thing is if we want to run tests in paralell (you seem
to prefer serial execution), another is avoiding bugs when
somene prefers paralell run.

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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