Re: [RFA] testsuite cleanups (part 2)

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Michael Snyder writes:
 > Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > 
 > >Here, I am observing a peculiar situation. If you run the testsuite in
 > >a directory that is not the build directory, i.e. the gdb.blah object
 > >dirs are recreated outside of the build tree, you will see that all
 > >the tests which use pthreads.c will not compile. This is because
 > >pthreads.c includes "config.h" which gets created in the build
 > >gdb/testsuite directory at configure time. Config.h was used to
 > >determine if there is posix thread support or not, but now we use the
 > >method of trying to compile with various -lblah so we don't really
 > >need this anymore.  
 > >
 > >It took me a while to notice this failure because I have the bad habit
 > >of looking just at the unexpected failures, glossing over the
 > >unsupported results.
 > >
 > >OK?
 > >
 > >elena
 > >
 > >[PS. I assume I used the correct autoconf, but I am nost sure: I used the
 > >autoconf-000227 snapshot].
 > >
 > 
 > In view of the large diffs in configure, I suspect this is indeed the wrong
 > version of autoconf. The rest of the change is approved. If you don't
 > easily solve the autoconf issue, you might consider leaving configure
 > alone -- it's just an extra test...
 > 
 > 

Or the previous configure was generated with the incorrect version of
autoconf. :-)  I know for sure that the autoconf-000227.tar is the right
one for the gdb/configure, and, I would estrapolate, it is the right one
for gdb/testsuite/configure as well.

elena