Re: verbosity of test failure feedback (was: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?)

2010-09-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 08 September 2010, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Actually, I haven't come across many test failures where more > > information was necessary. At least in this case I think it was > > crystal clear from the silent5.log file, no? ;-) > > > > O

Re: verbosity of test failure feedback (was: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?)

2010-09-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:00:04PM CEST: > > Darn, I've been sloppy: I should have also asked you to provide > > us with the (tarred) content of the temporary test directory > > `tests/silent5.dir'. Could you kindly s

Re: verbosity of test failure feedback (was: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?)

2010-09-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Actually, I haven't come across many test failures where more information was necessary. At least in this case I think it was crystal clear from the silent5.log file, no? ;-) One practical problem with sending test directory contents by default is th

[SOLVED] silent5.test failure (was: Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?)

2010-09-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello Bob, thanks for helping me through this. On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> tests/silent5.log and config.log are attached. From > >> tests/silent5.log I see that 'no' is being passed as a command > >> to bash, so it is li

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Bob. Thanks for your answer. On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> The GraphicsMagick test suite passes with this patch. I do see > >> one test failure with the Automake test suite > >> > >>FAIL: silent5.test > >> > >> b

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: The GraphicsMagick test suite passes with this patch. I do see one test failure with the Automake test suite FAIL: silent5.test but this test may have been failing prior to the patch. Could you please send the log of this test (`tests/silent5.l

parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. (was: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?)

2010-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:15:54AM CEST: > > --- a/lib/am/check.am > > +++ b/lib/am/check.am > > + { echo "TEST_LOGS = "; \ > > + for f in $$list; do \ > > + test .log = $$f ||

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Ralf. On Monday 06 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST: > > Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be > > included by the recursive make. > > Bob, can you try out this patch? > > Thanks, > Ralf > > 201

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Bob. On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST: > >> Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be > >> included by the recursive make. > > > > Bob, can

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST: Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be included by the recursive make. Bob, can you try out this patch? The GraphicsMagick test suite passes with this patch.

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: You *could* try not using parallel-tests and see whether that helps. By the way, has your package introduced many more tests since you last tried with 1.11 on MinGW/MSYS? The list of tests has been stable since the end of Feburary. I test GraphicsMa

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST: > Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be included > by the recursive make. Bob, can you try out this patch? Thanks, Ralf 2010-09-06 Ralf Wildenhues parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limi

Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

2010-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I'm adding the bug-automake list for reference. Bob reported the following failure with 'make check' inside the parallel-tests driver of a package using lots of tests, on MinGW/MSYS, as a regression of 1.11.1 over 1.11: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/bfriesen/mingw/foo-static' make[3]: execvp