Hi Bob. On 12/26/2013 10:33 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >>> Is there a better way to ask automake/make to keep the test-suite.log >>> around? Is there a way to make the warning go away? >>> >>> kind regards >>> holger >>> >>> >>> [1] >>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=96bd03d5b8d5d04fc8037c03a43bb5b148cc1e29 >>> >> Thanks for the suggestion, and sorry for the shameful delay. >> I implemented the required improvement with the trivial patch >> attached. It should appear in Automake 1.15. > > I noticed just a few days ago that CONTROL-C during a TAP test deleted the > associated test log file. This was annoying because I wanted to stop the > test after spotting an error (many tests in one TAP test script) but keep >the log file. Hopefully the patch solves this as well. > Actually no, but now you should be able to do solve the problem yourself by declaring $(TEST_LOGS) as a dependency of .PRECIOUS, without Automake getting in the way.
I don't want to make that the default behaviour, but if you find it useful and want to suggest it to other people, I won't refuse a documentation patch ;-) Regards, Stefano
