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

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 12/06/2018 07:52 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Thursday, December 06 2018, Pedro Franco de Carvalho wrote:
> 
>> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> Here's a quick bash POC.
>>
>> Thanks for the script!  However, for the buildbots I don't have access
>> to the parallel outputs folder through the webpage (or I don't know
>> where to find them).
>>
>> Still, the merged gdb.log file seems to already have the completion
>> times, e.g.:
>>
>> testcase [...]gdb.trace/unavailable.exp completed in 28 seconds

Indeed!

> 
> 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.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves