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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2022-10-22 17:23:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2022-10-22 22:40:26 -0400 |
| commit | f987d181c40270359f4d89fbe3daa1966634bac2 (patch) | |
| tree | aca919de6702d4f72a0201f4b86b26abe1359038 /README.in | |
| parent | cad3ddd165645fa7a8b1e9cf4ec996de89b4d5da (diff) | |
| download | make-git-f987d181c40270359f4d89fbe3daa1966634bac2.tar.gz | |
Collect failure details when the regression tests fail
* README.in: Add a section on running regression tests.
* Makefile.am (check-regression): Capture the test run output, and
on failure collect configure and test results into a tar file.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.in | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -66,6 +66,19 @@ You can find most information concerning the development of GNU Make at this site. +Regression Tests +---------------- + +GNU Make contains a suite of regression tests. To run them use "make check" +after building GNU Make. If they fail a tar package will be created +containing useful information, which can be emailed (as an attachment) to +the <bug-make@gnu.org> mailing list. + +Please note that since these tests rely on known-good-output comparisons, +they can show spurious failures on some systems (particularly non-POSIX systems +such as Windows). + + Bug Reporting ------------- |