Package: automake
Version: 1:1.11.6-1ubuntu1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I maintain the procenv application which is slightly unusual in that as part of
its package build (make check as handled by dh_auto_test), it runs itself to
allow those viewing the build logs to see the sort of environment that, for
example, a buildd provides. This has proved to be extremely useful in the past
debugging issues with _other_ packages build failures caused by erroneous
assumptions made about the build environment. Indeed, I've added links to
various sets of build logs on the tools project page as and aid to others:

  https://launchpad.net/procenv/

All used to work perfectly until (I think) the recent change to
automake 1.13. Now, although the tests run, the build log just shows the
test summary, like this:

  ============================================================================
  Testsuite summary for procenv 0.23
  ============================================================================
  # TOTAL: 2
  # PASS:  2
  # SKIP:  0
  # XFAIL: 0
  # FAIL:  0
  # XPASS: 0
  # ERROR: 0
  ============================================================================


I've tried various hacks to force the old verbose/non-silent "make check" build
behaviour including:

1) Explicitly specifying `AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])' in configure.ac and then
   forcing `--disable-silent-rules' in debian/rules via
   override_dh_auto_configure.

2) Forcing the setting of V=1 and VERBOSE=1 in various places.

Is there a way to re-enable a verbose build that displays more than the
test summary such as the following? I suspect (2) is the more official
way to control automakes verbosity, but I haven't yet found the magic
incantation that works in a Debian build environment.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers raring-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'raring-updates'), (500, 'raring-security'), (500, 'raring')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages automake depends on:
ii  autoconf       2.69-1ubuntu1
ii  autotools-dev  20120608.1
ii  dpkg           1.16.10ubuntu1
ii  install-info   4.13a.dfsg.1-10ubuntu4

automake recommends no packages.

automake suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


Kind regards,

James.
--
James Hunt
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