Mattias Engdegård [2022-11-04 18:49 +0100] wrote:

> 4 nov. 2022 kl. 18.08 skrev Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>:
>> itree-tests.c:71:F:insert1:test_insert_1:0: Assertion 'N_50.red' failed
>
> This doesn't quite conform to GNU message standards, does it? For it to have the
>
>   [PROGRAM:]FILE:LINE: MESSAGE
>
> form, there should be a space before the message (that is, before the
> 'F'). Otherwise parsing these things become almost impossible with all the
> possible variations, file names containing spaces and colons and so
> on.

I imagined as much, which is why I pinged you for comment from the
outset ;).

> Currently, the machinery interprets "tree-tests.c" as the program name and
> "71:F:insert1:test_insert_1" as the file which is of course nonsense.
>
> Any hope the tool can have its output format adjusted?

The only alternative format I'm aware of is after compiling the test
runner in CK_SUBUNIT mode instead of CK_NORMAL or CK_ENV.  I.e. with the
following patch: