Re: strace testsuite

[Pádraig Brady]

On 28/05/18 09:41, Marek Tamaškovič wrote:
> Hello,
> is there any easy way to run strace only on some testcases and not on whole
> 'make check' process?
> 
> Now I am using:
> 
>  strace -ff -o "coreutils.strace" \
>  make -j$(nproc) check TESTS="$*" SUBDIRS=. VERBOSE=yes \
>  RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes
> 
> .. and it is not the right solution.

There is no direct support for this.
You'd have to provide a wrapper for particular tests.
Perhaps the valgrind wrapper may give some hints?

http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=README-valgrind;hb=HEAD

cheers,
Pádraig