From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14664 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2003 21:37:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14632 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2003 21:37:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Jul 2003 21:37:27 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6TLbRZ17027 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:37:27 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6TLbRI32636; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:37:27 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (romulus-int.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.46]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6TLbPL02653; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:37:25 -0400 Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id F30D52CB2D; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:44:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16166.60119.768081.535006@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:37:00 -0000 To: Michael Snyder Cc: Elena Zannoni , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] testsuite cleanups (part 2) In-Reply-To: <3F26E41C.9010501@redhat.com> References: <16166.52191.925152.253688@localhost.redhat.com> <3F26E41C.9010501@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg00530.txt.bz2 Michael Snyder writes: > Elena Zannoni wrote: > > >Here, I am observing a peculiar situation. If you run the testsuite in > >a directory that is not the build directory, i.e. the gdb.blah object > >dirs are recreated outside of the build tree, you will see that all > >the tests which use pthreads.c will not compile. This is because > >pthreads.c includes "config.h" which gets created in the build > >gdb/testsuite directory at configure time. Config.h was used to > >determine if there is posix thread support or not, but now we use the > >method of trying to compile with various -lblah so we don't really > >need this anymore. > > > >It took me a while to notice this failure because I have the bad habit > >of looking just at the unexpected failures, glossing over the > >unsupported results. > > > >OK? > > > >elena > > > >[PS. I assume I used the correct autoconf, but I am nost sure: I used the > >autoconf-000227 snapshot]. > > > > In view of the large diffs in configure, I suspect this is indeed the wrong > version of autoconf. The rest of the change is approved. If you don't > easily solve the autoconf issue, you might consider leaving configure > alone -- it's just an extra test... > > Or the previous configure was generated with the incorrect version of autoconf. :-) I know for sure that the autoconf-000227.tar is the right one for the gdb/configure, and, I would estrapolate, it is the right one for gdb/testsuite/configure as well. elena