Re: Multi-OS Emacs buildbot?

[Toon Claes]

On Sat, Dec 26 2020, Michael Albinus wrote:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Well, the "make check" output is pretty regular, so it shouldn't be very
>> difficult to recognise.

GitLab is able to parse JUnit [1] formatted test output. It's an XML
format specified by IBM [2].

But as far as I know, it's currently not possible to include these
results in the pipeline emails. So that won't help us much at this
point.

>>> The best approximation I can think of is to add the last N lines of the
>>> log file to the notification message.
>>
>> That's better than nothing.
>
> Yes. Toon, I have no idea whether this would be possible in the mail
> template?

Until a few months ago the last 30 lines of the log were included in the
emails. But unfortunately they were removed [3] for security and
performance reasons. There is a follow-up issue [4] to discuss an
alternative.

We can apply a patch to our installation to revert the above, we did
something like this before. But there's an automatic update set up on
the machine, so we need a mechanism to reapply the patch after updating.


--
Toon

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/unit_test_reports.html
[2] 
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQ2R2_14.1.0/com.ibm.rsar.analysis.codereview.cobol.doc/topics/cac_useresults_junit.html
[3] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/42395.patch
[4] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/290306