[libvirt] where is config.log when debugging a failure reported by Jenkins

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Wed Jan 2 22:20:15 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 11:12:31PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:45:24PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Hello Jenkins folks,
> > 
> > On the libvirt list, we came across a case where a broken commit was
> > detected, but where the information available in the failure report was
> > insufficient (for at least me) to reproduce the failure environment
> > without asking more questions:
> > http://honk.sigxcpu.org:8001/job/libvirt-build/472/
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/msg00037.html
> > 
> > Is there any way that things can be tweaked to include the 'config.log'
> > file in the web report of a failed build?  Merely capturing the output
> > of './configure' fails to provide some of the details that are
> > intentionally redirected into the more verbose config.log file.
> 
> Since the build job itself is a just a shell script I can cat that file
> to stdout in case of failure. I've changed the job to do so.
Even better: let's collect config.log as a build artifact so we have it
for all builds and don't clutter up the build log itself.
 -- Guido




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