Hello Philip. On Monday 01 August 2011, Philipp Thomas wrote: > When building automake on s390 I get the following failure when running the > testsuite. Is there possibly a more detailed log that would help pinpoint > the exact failure? > > === Running test ./aclocal7.test > /usr/src/packages/BUILD/automake-1.8.3/tests/testSubDir > DIST_COMMON = README $(am__configure_deps) $(srcdir)/Makefile.am \ > FAIL: aclocal7.test > Whow, 1.8.3 is more than seven years old. Have you considerded upgarding to the latest version 1.11? It offers many new interesting features, and it's being actively developed (and its testsuite has grown decent logging capabilities).
That said, if you really need to debug the problem with that old automake version, here are some tips I hope you'll find useful. Assuming that you have already configured and built your automake tree, you can use the following idiom to get the verbose output from a single test: $ cd tests $ keep_testdirs=yes ./aclocal7.test 2>&1 | tee aclocal7.log $ mv testSubDir aclocal7.dir and this idiom to get the verbose output from the whole testsuite: $ make check VERBOSE=x 2>&1 | tee test-suite.log But notice that this last usage will still remove all the temporary files and directories used by the tests (even the failed ones), which will make debugging considerably more difficult, especially in case of intermittent failures. HTH, Stefano
