Re: [PATCH] Merge of readline 4.3 to mainline

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
 > The test suite is sick in gdb cvs HEAD.  gdb.base/annota1.exp times out
 > nearly every test, gdb.base/arithmet.exp FAILs on 28 tests, and so on.
 > 
 > Last week, gdb.log looked like this:
 > 
 >   # gdb.log, HEAD%2002-12-03
 >   print x^M
 >   $1 = 14^M
 >   (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/arithmet.exp: print x
 > 
 > This week, gdb.log looks like this:
 > 
 >   # gdb.log, HEAD%2002-12-09
 >   ^M(gdb) p^M(gdb) p^M(gdb) pr^M(gdb) pr^M(gdb) pri^M(gdb) pri^M(gdb) prin^M(gdb) prin^M(gdb) print^M(gdb) print^M(gdb) print ^M(gdb) print ^M(gdb) print x^M(gdb) print x^M
 >   $1 = 14^M
 >   ^M^M(gdb) ^M(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/arithmet.exp: print x
 > 
 > This looks like readline 4.3 changed the way that it echoes text,
 > and that a lot of test scripts are sensitive to that.  In particular,
 > the prompt changed from "(gdb) " to "^M^M(gdb) ^M(gdb) ".
 > 
 > Maybe there is some setting to frob in readline to get back the
 > simple style of echo output?
 > 
 > Michael C

This is odd. I didn't see this in the tests I ran, and also on the branch.
I'll take a look.
Are you seeing this on a native/linux?

Elena