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Re: Test suite for GDB?


Jason Molenda wrote:
> 
>  [ on bug-gdb someone asks if GDB has a testsuite ]
> 
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:43:19PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> 
> > Yes indeed, there is such a thing - it's not shipped with the standard
> > GDB distribution, mostly for historical reasons I suspect.
> 
> I included the testsuite in the main tarfile when I released 4.17 and
> didn't hear any howling.  I think we need to stop distributing the
> testsuite separately.  It only adds about 7% to the overall tar file,
> not a big deal.
> 
> I suspect JimB included a separate -testsuite.tar.gz files for 4.18 only
> because that's what the release documentation called for.
> 
> Does anyone really care either way?

Yes. My vote is to include it, too. 
It should be mentioned in the install docs,
that one should just try and run the testcase
and report any failures back.

  Guenther

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