Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.8 v1 00/60] Modular build of trace event files

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 08/10 09:06, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 09:41:40AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > On Tue, 08/09 18:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can we get this report to include details of the
> > > 
> > >   a) the software versions of gcc, binutils, and any -devel packages
> > >      we're building against
> > > 
> > >   b) the exact arguments + env variables used to invoke configure,
> > >      not merely its output
> > > 
> > > so we don't have to go digging into the docker test systemm to
> > > try and reverse engineer this info
> > 
> > The whole point of docker test system is offer a relatively easy reproducer 
> > to
> > developers, so I'm reluctant to engineer patchew or the test script it runs 
> > for
> > that.
> 
> That's just pointlessly creating extra work for the developers reading
> these build reports. If you outputted the info I suggest, it can help
> developers diagnose the problems more quickly. Even if running the
> docker env locally is possible & even easy, it doesn't make it faster
> than reading the relevant info from email report in front of you.

I agree with your point, I just don't know how to do a) neatly, except for a
vast change to configure.

Fam