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Re: RFC: branching for GDB 7.11 soon? (possibly Wed)
- From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, <keiths at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:31:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFC: branching for GDB 7.11 soon? (possibly Wed)
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On Tuesday, February 09 2016, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 16-02-09 09:18 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 02/09/2016 02:14 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
>>> On 16-02-09 12:35 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>>>> Today, Simon pushed a commit that caused a few regressions on Ada, on
>>>> some builders. This is:
>>>>
>>>> <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testers/2016-q1/msg04420.html>
>>>
>>> I'll look into it right now. I did not receive anything from the
>>> buildbot, is it normal?
>>
>> Yes, only build breakages get you a nag email. "Normal" testsuite
>> regressions don't result in personal notifications, because the testsuite
>> still trips on too many racy failures. Once the testing infrustructure handles
>> racy tests more gracefully, and testing is more stable, I think we should
>> enable personal nags, but not yet.
>
> Ok, my understanding was that I broke some previously passing tests. Upon
> inspection, it seems like before my commit, a lot of Ada tests simply were
> not running. For example:
>
> FAIL: gdb.ada/aliased_array.exp: compilation foo.adb
>
> becomes
>
> PASS: gdb.ada/aliased_array.exp: compilation foo.adb
> FAIL: gdb.ada/aliased_array.exp: print bt
>
> Which introduces new FAILs. But there is no previously passing test that
> now fails, I think. So if that's the case, I don't think it should block
> the release.
Hm, recently some extra packages were installed on some buildslaves in
order to test more things; one of those packages was gcc-gnat for Ada.
I think that may indeed be the cause. Sorry if that was a false alarm.
> Also, I don't have all those failures when I run the testsuite on my machine,
> so I don't really know what causes them.
These tests don't seem to be racy, so if you can't reproduce the
failures, I'd say you did not introduce them.
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