On 26/06/13 21:47, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 06/26/2013 06:39 PM, James Hunt wrote: >> I'm struggling to coerce automake 1.13 to produce a verbose build log as >> used to >> be possible with previous releases. >> >> check.am in automake-1.13 still contains: >> >> test x"$$VERBOSE" = x || cat $(TEST_SUITE_LOG);" >> >> ... but I cannot seem to force VERBOSE to work as it used to. >> > That's because, starting from Automake 1.13, the parallel testsuite harness > has been made the default one; this harness is quite silent, and even with > VERBOSE=yes, it only displays the logs of the non-passed tests (i.e., only > of the failed or skipped ones, or of the ones that passed unexpectedly). > Until Automake 1.12, the older (and more verbose) serial harness was the > default, so -- among other differences -- the output used to be more verbose. > > If you want to retain the use of the old serial harness in your project, you > have to use the 'serial-tests' option (recognized by automake 1.12, 1.13 and > the most recent 1.14, but unfortunately *not* buy automake 1.11).
Ok. I've tried the trick from: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-01/msg00052.html ... but it doesn't appear to work for me. This behaviour change is causing a few problems for other projects too so I'd really like to find a way to reliably re-enable verbose output. > >> I've reported this bug in Debian with more details: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710955 >> >> Kind regards, >> >> James. > > HTH, > Stefano > Kind regards, James. -- James Hunt ____________________________________ #upstart on freenode http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
