[FFmpeg-cvslog] r12930 - trunk/libavcodec/mimic.c

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Mike Melanson wrote:

> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:20:04PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> >> Robert Swain wrote:
> >>> It might be useful if viewers of the fate.multimedia.cx page
> >>> could see which test(s) failed, possibly why and what the test
> >>> is. I guess you've already thought of this but just haven't got
> >>> round to doing it yet. :)
> >> Oh yes. :) And it's coming sooner rather than later. Currently, I
> >> have to do a manual query to figure out when a test broke for a
> >> configuration.
> > 
> > Ah, that reminds me, as a compromise between space used and
> > usefulness, maybe FATE could keep the full compile and test logs of
> > just the last run? Or at least a "tail -n 50" or so of it?
> 
> FATE already keeps the full stdout and stderr generated by configure
> && make for each build configuration. I am planning to retire older
> data. But all the data is currently there unless it's too long (as is
> always the case with Intel's pedantic C compiler).
> 
> Perhaps you are referring to storing the last 50 lines of 'make
> test'? I agree that doing so would be very useful. The most
> straightforward method I can think of is:
> 
>   make test 2&>1 > maketest-output.txt && tail -n 50 maketest-output.txt
> 
> Problem: The 'tail' portion of the command clobbers any return code
> from the 'make test' portion, thus altering the FATE results.

You could probably do something like:

  make test >maketest-output.txt 2>&1
  ERR=$?
  tail -n 50 maketest-output.txt
  test $ERR = 0

Aurel