[Buildbot-devel] Marking a build step as failed unless the STDOUT contains a magic string.

[Scott Lawrence]

> On Jan 22, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Matisse Enzer wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have two factory steps:
> >
> >    f1.addStep(shell.ShellCommand, command=['make', 'smoke'])
> >    f1.addStep(shell.ShellCommand, command=['make', 'languages-smoke'])
> >
> > and I need to mark each step as a failure unless the stdout contains a
> > line
> > exactly matching:
> >       ^All tests successful.$
> >
> > Is there a "best practice" for doing this sort of thing?

It's not very robust to look for magic strings.  It's much better to
just make sure that your makefile is written so that 'make' will return
a failure status unless all tests pass.

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