Re: [PATCH] Implement timestamp'ed output on "make check"

Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-12-07T22:09:19Z

On Friday, December 07 2018, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On 12/06/2018 07:52 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> The results can be found at <https://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/results/>,
>> but you're, you just have access to the consolidated gdb.log, not the
>> different logs under output/.
>
> Given the above, then I have to ask: what's the advantage of the
> new timestamped output mode? Why not just extract the info out
> of the gdb.log file? It's less code to maintain, and you don't
> have to remember to run the testsuite in a special mode, nor
> record stdout of the test run.

When I was writing the timestamp script, I didn't think about extracting
the info from gdb.log. So there's that. I agree that it's easier to
have the consolidated info at the end, and I can propose a patch for
that based on your shell script, but I also think it makes sense to have
the special "timestamp'd" mode, because sometimes (when a build takes
more than 120 hours, for example, which was happening until recently
with the ppc64le builders) it's useful to have the information on the
screen without having to wait, I think.

Cheers,

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