[bug#78850] improve debuggability of installcheck failures

2025-06-20 Thread Karl Berry
So, here's a proposed patch to fix this. It adds more output (on stderr) in the case of failure. It does not change the output in the case of success. I installed it. Saw nothing to change, and make distcheck still succeeded. Thanks as always, Bruno. -k

[bug#78850] improve debuggability of installcheck failures

2025-06-20 Thread Bruno Haible via Patches for Automake
Automake provides a useful 'installcheck' implementation for packages that install programs: It runs each program twice, once with option '--help' and once with option '--version'. Here is a sample output: make[2]: Entering directory '/work/gettext-2025-06-19/build/gettext-tools/src' bad=0; pid=$