Re: [PATCH] Merge of readline 4.3 to mainline

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Elena Zannoni writes:
 > Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
 >  > The test suite is sick in gdb cvs HEAD.  gdb.base/annota1.exp times out
 >  > nearly every test, gdb.base/arithmet.exp FAILs on 28 tests, and so on.
 >  > 
 >  > Last week, gdb.log looked like this:
 >  > 
 >  >   # gdb.log, HEAD%2002-12-03
 >  >   print x^M
 >  >   $1 = 14^M
 >  >   (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/arithmet.exp: print x
 >  > 
 >  > This week, gdb.log looks like this:
 >  > 
 >  >   # gdb.log, HEAD%2002-12-09
 >  >   ^M(gdb) p^M(gdb) p^M(gdb) pr^M(gdb) pr^M(gdb) pri^M(gdb) pri^M(gdb) prin^M(gdb) prin^M(gdb) print^M(gdb) print^M(gdb) print ^M(gdb) print ^M(gdb) print x^M(gdb) print x^M
 >  >   $1 = 14^M
 >  >   ^M^M(gdb) ^M(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/arithmet.exp: print x
 >  > 
 >  > This looks like readline 4.3 changed the way that it echoes text,
 >  > and that a lot of test scripts are sensitive to that.  In particular,
 >  > the prompt changed from "(gdb) " to "^M^M(gdb) ^M(gdb) ".
 >  > 
 >  > Maybe there is some setting to frob in readline to get back the
 >  > simple style of echo output?
 >  > 
 >  > Michael C
 > 
 > This is odd. I didn't see this in the tests I ran, and also on the branch.
 > I'll take a look.
 > Are you seeing this on a native/linux?
 > 
 > Elena

I just did an update and built again, and I don't see anything odd.
Maybe something changed in expect/dejagnu? Hmm, I am up to date there
as well.  I tested before doing the import on a i386 linux, and same
now, on my laptop.

Elena