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#49309
Feature Request: Automake script based tests to print the test name before running it
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Reported by: Kasper k <kasperkantz <at> outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 07:23:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Am 01.07.2021 um 20:59 schrieb Kasper k:
> Then if some intermittent bad situation happens in
> unattended/disposable CI environment, as an example, then we won't be
> needing to opt into any kind of workaround, it'd be just there right in
> the "regular" make-check logs; without introducing crazy amount of
> verbosity (which set -x, VERBOSE=1 etc. renders).
IMHO that whole idea loses a most, if not all of its appeal when tests
are run in parallel (which CI builds, always pressed for time, will
rather likely want to do).
As soon as there is more than one line of output, you're back to where
you were without this change, or worse.
* -Otarget or -Orecurse will undo the desired effect, because make will
keep the entire output to itself until the test is done. That's the
back to square one part.
* -Oline or -Onone modes will print outputs from different tests
intermixed, making it virtually impossible to know which result output
belongs to which testcase. That's considerably worse than single-line
outputs.
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