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Re: ping: [patch+7.8] PR testsuite/16602 runtest deletes files in-src-tree
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:16:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: ping: [patch+7.8] PR testsuite/16602 runtest deletes files in-src-tree
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:33:11 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:27:24 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> > Maybe that's fine. Maybe we should just never delete
>> > these files, even on remote host testing. Dunno.
>>
>> I have no opinion what should happen in all the other cases, there are many
>> options how the testsuite could behave. Just currently it is broken for the
>> IMO most simple srcdir builds.
>
> What is the maintainers' decision how the testsuite should behave so that
> I can code the appropriate patch?
Hi.
For reference sake,
My current opinion is that there's no point in deleting the files,
even with remote host testing.
And there is value in not deleting them.
ref: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-08/msg00282.html