[PATCH v2] ci: improve logging of unit tests runs

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 14:19:13 CET 2026


Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> writes:

> To help track down issues reported by CI test runs, add some additional
> meson flags to the run of the fast-tests:
>
> --no-stdsplit:
>   keep the stdout and stderr output interleaved, rather
>   than separated in the logs, to make following what is happening during
>   a test run easier.
> --print-errorlogs:
>   when an error with a unit test does occur, output to the terminal the
>   last N lines of output. This allows us to see inline what may have
>   failed without always needing to check log files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---
> V2: Drop max-lines flag, since it's only introduced in very recent meson
>     versions.
> ---

Thanks for working on this.  I guess when we bump our meson support
version we could re-introduce the max-lines flag (looks like it was
added in 1.5.0 based on reading the notes).

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>

CC'ing Patrick and the CI list - just in case any of the labs have any
special processing when they pull error logs.



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