commit 36ba506508ec5406be3d8c6a3b275fba069a7edf Author: Taylor Yu catalyst@torproject.org Date: Thu Oct 11 20:25:41 2018 -0500

report origin of mystery core file

Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes ticket 28024. --- .travis.yml | 1 + Makefile.am | 9 +++++++++ changes/ticket28024 | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml index 56d7dc073..de526fe0f 100644 --- a/.travis.yml +++ b/.travis.yml @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ after_failure: - if [[ "$DISTCHECK" == "" ]]; then cat test-suite.log || echo "cat failed"; fi ## `make distcheck` puts it somewhere different. - if [[ "$DISTCHECK" != "" ]]; then make show-distdir-testlog || echo "make failed"; fi + - if [[ "$DISTCHECK" != "" ]]; then make show-distdir-core || echo "make failed"; fi

after_success: ## If this build was one that produced coverage, upload it. diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index a0f513c75..e5c1be31b 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -452,6 +452,15 @@ show-distdir-testlog: else \ cat $(distdir)/_build/$(TEST_SUITE_LOG); fi

+# Similarly, this relies on automake internals to run file on an +# intermittent core file whose provenance is not known to us. See +# ticket 26787. +show-distdir-core: + @if test -d "$(distdir)/_build/sub"; then \ + file $(distdir)/_build/sub/core ; \ + else \ + file $(distdir)/_build/core; fi + show-libs: @echo $(TOR_INTERNAL_LIBS)

diff --git a/changes/ticket28024 b/changes/ticket28024 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4b3952308 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/ticket28024 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ + o Minor features (testing): + - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we + occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes + ticket 28024.