Re: Reported location of test-suite.log

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bob,

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 01:14:10AM CET:
> After running a test suite I see a report like
> 
> ======================
> 28 of 721 tests failed
> See ./test-suite.log
> ======================
> 
> but this does not help much unless I know the directory where the
> build was performed (not always the case).  The "./" bit in front of
> test-suite.log is not really very helpful.  What would be much more
> helpful is if a full path from root is reported so that I can view
> the right file regardless of my current directory.

I'm not sure I understand.  The code in question uses something like
  See $(subdir)/$(TEST_SUITE_LOG).

which should expand to the full relative patch of the log file, starting
from the top builddir in a package.

Is $(subdir) wrong in your Makefile, or are you using a package
hierarchy with sub-configure scripts?  In the latter case, autotools so
far never produce relative paths wrt. the topmost package.

Thanks,
Ralf