Hello, you'll find in attachement a patch against the stable 1.10 to make the check target a bit more verbose by displaying a summary of the failed tests (or xpassed, or xfailled, or skipped).
For example, it may give the following output: ===================================================== All 8 tests behaved as expected (3 expected failures) ===================================================== Expected failures: gras/datadesc/datadesc_r_big32_8.tesh gras/datadesc/datadesc_r_big32_8_4.tesh gras/datadesc/datadesc_r_big32_2.tesh This becomes very usefull when applying the "one makefile to rule them all" philosophy to the tests, since you end up with a awfull lot of output, and finding which are the failed test may turn quite difficult. On the other hand, that's not completely perfect since it does not work for subdirectories, but I'm still unsure of how it would be possible without using some sort of log file (and even so, that's still challenging I think). I only tested it on my own project on debian testing x86, and it works well for me (tm). I hope that you will find it interesting and consider for inclusion in the next version of automake. Bye, Mt. PS: please CC me, I'm not subscribed.
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