Dear Monks,

I am trying to investigate failed tests which occur on some CPAN testers' systems but not in mine.

Without excluding other suggestions, I would like to make the command make test more verbose by not suppressing diag and STDERR output for each test. Right now, running make test I get:

...
t/11-scripts-pod.t .............................. ok
t/12-from-file.t ................................ 
...
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/12-from-file.t                              (Wstat: 9 Tests: 11 Fail
+ed: 0)
  Non-zero wait status: 9
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output

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So, I would like to know what's going in t/12-from-file.t and where exactly it gets KILL'ed. Alas the output is opaque.

I have read here https://stackoverflow.com/a/5307376 that running make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 will do exactly what I want.

The problem is I don't know how to tell CPAN testers to run make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 (and not the default make test).

The furthest I got was to add ANOTHER make test target in the produced Makefile, with increased verbosity flags, to be run after the usual make test via the MY::postamble technique (using ExtUtils::MakeMaker, e.g. see Re: Benchmarks target in Makefile). The caveat is that I am not sure it will go ahead if previous Makefile target has failed. I think it does not.

Is there a solution to this?

bw, bliako

In reply to Increase verbosity of "make test" by bliako

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