Re: gdb-7.8 branching status (2014-06-04)

Joel Brobecker
2014-06-04T18:20:41Z

> I also filed PRs for the gdbserver regressions I had mentioned before.
>
> [Bug go/17018] New: XFAIL: gdb.go/hello.exp: Starting string check
> https://sourceware.org/PR17018
>
> [Bug gdb/17019] New: gdb.base/restore.exp failures
> https://sourceware.org/PR17019
>
> [Bug gdb/17020] New: gdb.base/store.exp failures
> https://sourceware.org/PR17020
>
> [Bug gdb/17016] New: XFAIL: gdb.threads/dlopen-libpthread.exp: info probes all rtld rtld_map_complete
> https://sourceware.org/PR17016
>
> [Bug gdb/17015] New: gdb.trace/collection.exp failures
> https://sourceware.org/PR17015
>
> [Bug gdb/17014] New: gdb.trace/unavailable.exp failures
> https://sourceware.org/PR17014
>
> Likely most of those are system/gcc related though. I'm diffing
> against a gdb.sum from a month ago, and I updated my Fedora in
> the mean time... Still, it's shame that all these are failing
> on newer systems.
>
> I'll run the testsuite on my current system against 7.7,
> diff the result against mainline, and update the PRs with
> what I find out. If they fail on 7.7 as well, they're not
> regressions, so can't be blockers.

Thanks for doing that, Pedro. Let us know when you have the results,
so we know whether we're in the clear or not...

--
Joel