Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: fix display of make errors

From: Brendan Higgins
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 16:00:39 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:32 AM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> CalledProcessError stores the output of the failed process as `bytes`,
> not a `str`.
>
> So when we log it on build error, the make output is all crammed into
> one line with "\n" instead of actually printing new lines.
>
> After this change, we get readable output with new lines, e.g.
> > CC lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.o
> > In file included from ../lib/kunit/test.c:9:
> > ../include/kunit/test.h:22:1: error: unknown type name ‘invalid_type_that_causes_compile’
> > 22 | invalid_type_that_causes_compile errors;
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > make[3]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:283: lib/kunit/test.o] Error 1
>
> Secondly, trying to concat exceptions to strings will fail with
> > TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "OSError") to str
> so fix this with an explicit cast to str.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers!