'virTestCompareToFile' automatically fixes newline if it is not present in the input string but is present in the file. In this case we need to append the erorr messages with a newline so that VIR_TEST_REGENERATE_OUTPUT produces files which will pass syntax-check. Fixes: 9ec77eef2df Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c index a3c91fd5de..2b97eb80a4 100644 --- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c +++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c @@ -621,9 +621,11 @@ testCompareXMLToArgv(const void *data) VIR_TEST_DEBUG("no error was reported for expected parse error"); goto cleanup; } - if (flags & FLAG_EXPECT_PARSE_ERROR && - virTestCompareToFile(err->message, info->errfile) >= 0) - goto ok; + if (flags & FLAG_EXPECT_PARSE_ERROR) { + g_autofree char *tmperr = g_strdup_printf("%s\n", NULLSTR(err->message)); + if (virTestCompareToFile(tmperr, info->errfile) >= 0) + goto ok; + } goto cleanup; } if (flags & FLAG_EXPECT_PARSE_ERROR) { @@ -663,9 +665,11 @@ testCompareXMLToArgv(const void *data) VIR_TEST_DEBUG("no error was reported for expected failure"); goto cleanup; } - if (flags & FLAG_EXPECT_FAILURE && - virTestCompareToFile(err->message, info->errfile) >= 0) - goto ok; + if (flags & FLAG_EXPECT_FAILURE) { + g_autofree char *tmperr = g_strdup_printf("%s\n", NULLSTR(err->message)); + if (virTestCompareToFile(tmperr, info->errfile) >= 0) + goto ok; + } goto cleanup; } if (flags & FLAG_EXPECT_FAILURE) { -- 2.26.2