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Re: runtest gdb testsuite oddities.
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:25:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: runtest gdb testsuite oddities.
- References: <m31v4jrosh.fsf@redhat.com>
> Toms check-in today regarding the failure in py-infthread.exp had me
> exploring why I did not see it. For some reason when one runs: runtest
> gdb.python/*.exp the testsuite seems to pass just fine. But when one
> runs just one (failing) exp file, the test fails as it should. I'm not
> sure why, and my fu regarding dejagnu is very slim. Can anyone explain
> what is going on here? Hopefully it is something silly I have done.
Each testcase (.exp) is actually part of the same run. When you think
of scripts being executed, they are actually files being sourced.
So what I am thinking happened to you is that, in your normal context,
you first "ran" (in other words: sourced) a gdb.python testcase that
called "load_lib gdb-python.exp", and thus defined the
gdb_py_test_silent_cmd procedure. "Thanks" to that, by the time dejagnu
"ran" py-infthread.exp, tcl/expect could find gdb_py_test_silent_cmd,
even though the "script" is missing a call to load_lib.
--
Joel