Re: Stupid question about running tests

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> > If you mean a shell trace, then not that I'm aware of.
> >
> > The best way to do it is probably to put test -n "$DEBUG" && set -x in 
> > tests/defs.in, and then call the tests with:
> >
> >   DEBUG=1 make check TESTS=blah.test
> >
> > Seems like something that would be useful to commit too...
>
> Setting VERBOSE to some value already enables some output.  Maybe 
> VERBOSE should accept certain designated values, one of which also 
> enables shell tracing?

Sounds good.  VERBOSE=debug works for me :-)

Don't expend too much effort though, 'cos we're moving to Autotest 
shortly...

> It seems that CVS libtool's current woes can largely be 
> located/identified by enabling shell tracing.

Most definitely.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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