Hi all, for some CI environments I need to have "make check" output go directly (as it happens) to stdout and stderr. The reason is that they abort a test due to inactivity and if a hang occurs during a test, I am unable to get hold of the output if it is not sent to stdout/err. I see two ways of doing that: 1. select serial test harness This works, but I would like to keep it optional, best via a configure option (e.g. --enable-serial-tests) because I prefer the parallel harness where possible (and it doesn't work on older autotools versions). I tried to look up how to do this, but besides getting the idea that it should be possible, I have no clue of how to actually implement this. 2. make the parallel harness output to stdout/err This seems to be supported via AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT, however the only doc on it I find is this here[1]: ==== ## With this, the test scripts will be able to print diagnostic ## messages to the original standard error stream, even if the test ## driver redirects the stderr of the test scripts to a log file ## before executing them. AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT = 9>&2 ==== Which explicitly only states stderr. I tried to get hold of stdout by "8>&1" and "8>&2" but to no avail. So I wonder if there is a way to get both stdout and stderr back their original destination. I also wonder if this is "as it happens" (but it sounds so). Your help would be much appreciated. As I am far from an autotools expert, I would even more appreciate some actual code samples. Thanks in advance, Rainer [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites.html _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
