Re: Test insight with gdbserver

[Jie Zhang <jie dot zhang at analog dot com>]

Jie Zhang wrote:
> Keith Seitz wrote:
> > Jie Zhang wrote:
> > > Is there a way to run gdb.gdbtk with gdbserver? It seems to me that 
> > > gdb.gdbtk cannot load program using gdbserver. Is there anything I 
> > > missed?
> >
> > If this is supported by gdb, it should work. Can you run gdb's test 
> > suite with gdbserver as the target? What does your site.exp look like?
> I can run gdb's testsuite with gdbserver. But I cannot do the same for 
> insight.
>
> It seems that insight-support.exp can only deal with four target types: 
> monitor, simulator, sid and native. Neither of them will start gdbserver 
> on target machine. It looks to me that gdb.gdbtk sets file by using 
> gdbtk_test_file and then uses the gdb commands in info(init), 
> info(target), info(load) and info(run) to start test. It does not use 
> gdb_load which is used in the other part of gdb testsuite.
I now have a patch which works for me. To contribute it to Insight, is 
there any paper work about copyright I need to do? My code can be 
assigned to FSF. But the copyright line of the file I touch is 
copyrighted by Red Hat (insight-support.exp):

# GDB Testsuite Support for Insight.
#
# Copyright 2001, 2004 Red Hat, Inc.



Jie