>>>>> "pipe" == Erez:
| Akim, you could help folks like me by distributing some sort of wrapper
| script that does the following:
|
| - run make test
| - for every failed test, run the debug*.sh script and record its output
| - remember to remove config.log etc. before running each debug*.sh test
| - create a tar file of everything you need: configure, config.cache,
| config.log's for each debug script, the debug scripts themselves, and the
| full output of "make test".
| - add anything else as needed
| - uuencode the tar file
As a first step, what is absolutely necessary is that the debug
scripts dump the content of config.log. It is now clear that it would
have helped us a lot to track down some of the failures you noticed,
and they will actually always be needed.
I don't have time right now to implement this, but this week-end I
will probably sit down and fix some of the remaining issues.
| Then, it would be easy for testers like myself to run such a script blindly,
| and mail you the resulting archive that contains all the info you need.
| That way we won't waste too much time b/t us: you ask "can you try X and
| mail me the output of Y" and we have to re-run tests.
Tom's scripts might help, indeed. Actually, this issue is so generic
that it is surprising that there are no tools already developed. I
wouldn't be surprised that François has something automated?
Akim
