> I might be missing something, but I get that behavior in my automatic > builds by calling 'make check VERBOSE=1'.
This does not appear to have any effect when using the TAP framework. So it seems. From grepping the installed automake, I see VERBOSE used in exactly one line of code: am/check.am:373: test x"$$VERBOSE" = x || cat $(TEST_SUITE_LOG); (All the other occurrences are about Automake's V= verbosity feature, I believe.) But since in my project (TeX Live) we have always used the regular driver, I am happy :). --best, karl.