.log output for tests are b0rked

[howaboutsynergy]

the log files for the tests are b0rked because test-driver (script created by autotools?) is redirecting stdout to the same .log file that the test(s) are writing to via srunner_set_log().

As a workaround, is enough to just change eg. srunner_set_log (sr, "do_cd_command.log"); to srunner_set_log (sr, "-"); in each script, so that now both test-driver and the test(s) are using the same descriptor for the log file output.
(details in ​https://github.com/libcheck/check/issues/188 )

Result with the above change, is:

$ cat do_cd_command.log 
Running suite(s): /src/filemanager
Running suite /src/filemanager
do_cd_command.c:147:P:Core:test_empty_mean_home:0: Passed
do_cd_command.c:147:P:Core:test_empty_mean_home:1: Passed
do_cd_command.c:147:P:Core:test_empty_mean_home:2: Passed
do_cd_command.c:147:P:Core:test_empty_mean_home:3: Passed
100%: Checks: 4, Failures: 0, Errors: 0
Results for all suites run:
100%: Checks: 4, Failures: 0, Errors: 0
PASS do_cd_command (exit status: 0)

before, it was:

$ cat do_cd_command.log 
Running suite /src/filemanager
do_c100%: Checks: 4, Failures: 0, Errors: 0
ome:0: Passed
do_cd_command.c:147:P:Core:test_empty_mean_home:1: Passed
do_cd_command.c:147:P:Core:test_empty_mean_home:2: Passed
do_cd_command.c:147:P:Core:test_empty_mean_home:3: Passed
Results for all suites run:
100%: Checks: 4, Failures: 0, Errors: 0
PASS do_cd_command (exit status: 0)

Should I attempt a patch with the specified workaround? (it would be my first mc patch, and yes I will have to read on the code formatting rules: https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/Hacking and other things)

[howaboutsynergy]

On second thought, maybe applying that workaround is a bad idea because according to this comment ​https://github.com/libcheck/check/issues/188#issuecomment-492915938 it seems that only newer Automake decided to log the output to the same log file name(via test-driver script). So, because the older Automake didn't do that before, then applying the workaround suggested by me above would result in the tests logging their output to stdout instead of in the log file, for anyone running them with older Automake tools.

[and]

Thanks howaboutsynergy for your insane post at gitsoft.
Lets print test logging output to stdout and save by automake to logfile.

[andrew_b]

Branch: 3986_tests_logs
changeset:227f03238c5f6616c020cc1c558d1c170b829679

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [ac77cf731a7bbf24dc77bada265a941c81e91e98].