Bug#819278: llvm-toolchain-3.8: Build not reliable

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> > Hmm. Why not? The building of a package should not be a black box.
> because the current test execution is working fine (except for your issue of
> course).
> When a test is failing, I only get what I need and I don't have to dig for the
> actual error.
>
> [...]
>
> Only failing tests are displayed in verbose.

I see.

Such algorithm (showing the test that failed, only when one of them fails)
is ok when the result of a test is either pass or fail.

In real life, a test may either pass or fail but also make the build to hang.
In the last case we don't know which test is the one that made the build
to hang, precisely because the build hang, and this is why I would
suggest everybody (upstreams and maintainers) to enable verbose tests.

Thanks.