Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC: Unit test improvements

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:10:36PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> >I'm concerned about the buildbots, where we'd
> >really rather get full output on the first try (since we don't in
> >general have access to the machine for debugging).
> >
> >What we do for the lua testsuite is, we have a hacky shell script
> >line for all the buildslaves that says 'if make check failed, cat
> >tester_dir/tester.log'.  One possibility would be to simply use this
> >same mechanism -- if the unit_tests always wrote their full output to
> >a log file, then we could teach the buildslaves to dump this logfile
> >into their output whenever the tests failed.
> 
> That should be easy.  Do you want the dumping in the Makefile, or ... where?

Well, it should happen on 'make check' and 'make distcheck'... I don't
think anything beyond that matters much.

-- Nathaniel

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