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Re: runtest gdb testsuite oddities.
- From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:29:49 +0000
- Subject: Re: runtest gdb testsuite oddities.
- References: <m31v4jrosh.fsf@redhat.com> <20110112022548.GB2518@adacore.com>
- Reply-to: pmuldoon at redhat dot com
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
>> 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.
It also seems to happen with just a plain old "make check" too (I guess
as it equates to runtest $$/*.exp in each directory.) The import being
sourced from a previous test unit sounds bogus. (Not that I know how to
fix it, or even if we can.)
Cheers
Phil