On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 23:52:47 Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Sergey/all - when make check fails, it advises the user to email > testsuite.log to bug-tar. That is nice in theory, but the log is big > these days, and there are a lot of people on bug-tar, ie, we're talking > a lot of bandwidth to distribute such a message. > > I suggest changing the msg to say to compress the log first. I expect > that would reduce the size greatly. > > (Or is this an automake issue? Probably. But I'll write here first > anwyay. I admit I'm sending this blind after user feedback, I don't > have a failing test at hand myself. Some quick greps in the source did > not clarify.)
This seems to be autoconf RFE, added to CC. Following simple change could help; but as not all projects may agree (some automatic report parsers?), it could be useful to have a way how to configure that message. | diff --git a/lib/autotest/general.m4 b/lib/autotest/general.m4 | index 06d7546..2942ca0 100644 | --- a/lib/autotest/general.m4 | +++ b/lib/autotest/general.m4 | @@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ else | else | at_msg="\`${at_testdir+${at_testdir}/}$as_me.log'" | fi | - AS_ECHO(["Please send $at_msg and all information you think might help: | + AS_ECHO(["Please send compressed $at_msg and all information you think might help: | | To: <AT_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT> | Subject: @<:@AT_PACKAGE_STRING@:>@ $as_me: dnl