Re: [RFA/testsuite] Shorten the maint.exp symbols tests

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:52:04PM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
> The maint.exp changes in question cause testsuite failures on my
> system for 'maint print symbols' and 'maint print psymbols'.  I've
> played around with it a bit; it seems to me that if I do
> 
> (gdb) maint print symbols symbols_output ./gdb.base/break.c
> 
> (which is what maint.exp does in my situation) then I get an empty
> file symbols_output, whereas if I just do
> 
> (gdb) maint print symbols symbols_output gdb.base/break.c
> 
> then I get the correct symbols_output file.  Here, I'm running GDB
> from within the testsuite directory; I don't use a separate build
> directory when configuring GDB, which might or might not make a
> difference.

Blech!  I'm not sure what to do about this.  Somehow we'd need to
figure out how the file was compiled - is the logic to decide this in
gdb_compile?  Does the compiler clean it up on its own?  Maybe if we
pass an explicit srcdir to gdb_compile we can get consistent results
here.

Or maybe we should make 'maint print symbols symbols_output break.c'
match all files ending in break.c.  That's much less fragile.  What do
you think?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer