Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Hi, > > In my projects that use Automake and the "parallel" test driver, often > I have 1000 unit tests, of which 100-150 are skipped and 1-5 fail. > When analyzing the "make check" results, the generated test-suite.log > is more handy to use than the 1000 different <test>.log files. However, > before I get an overview of the results, I have to eliminate the logs > of the SKIPped tests (because the 1-5 failures are intermixed with > the 100-150 SKIPped test logs). This is a process that takes 1-2 minutes > each time.
Thanks for proposing this. I'd find this useful too. > > I could write a script that post-processes the test-suite.log to eliminate > them. But it is better if the logs of the SKIPped tests wouldn't appear > in the file in the first place. The SKIPped tests are uninteresting > in my case. > > Here is a patch that allows the package maintainer to eliminate the > SKIPped test logs, thus making test-suite.log more useful: either > by running > make check IGNORE_SKIPPED_LOGS=1 > or by defining in the Makefile (or Makefile.am): > IGNORE_SKIPPED_LOGS = 1 > > It includes a unit test, documentation updates, and passes "make check". > > [2. text/x-patch; > 0001-automake-Allow-omitting-the-logs-of-skipped-tests-fr.patch]...
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