From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7837 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2003 14:52:07 -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 7798 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2003 14:52:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2003 14:52:01 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZDFy-0005au-00; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:52:43 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZBNA-00079E-00; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:52:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:52:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Fernando Nasser Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Remove all setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/ Message-ID: <20030116145159.GA26203@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Fernando Nasser , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200301151744.h0FHi6O27664@duracef.shout.net> <20030115175143.GA32268@nevyn.them.org> <3E26C140.8050400@redhat.com> <20030116143053.GA22382@nevyn.them.org> <3E26C5C9.4060000@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E26C5C9.4060000@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00603.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >>That is correct. The last argument of a setup_xfail, if it does not > >>contain '-' (Argh! Don't blame me, it was already there since immemorial > >>times) is the PR number. It can easily be a gdb/NNN bug id. We cannot > >>enforce the syntax, but we can enforce it as a police. > > > > > >[Last or first? Oh, the answer is "either" according to framework.exp.] > > > > I was referring to the way it has been used in our tests. The distinction > is the absence of '-'s. > > > >>P.S.: Does someone know how to programatically access the Gnats database? > > > > > >Yes; the GNATS software package includes a number of remote tools, > >particularly nquery-pr. You have to find a copy of GNATS 3.x; the 4.x > >tools don't interoperate with the version on sourceware. > > > > Ah, but that is a command, I was thinking of an API. Oh well, we can > always run the thing and capture the output I guess... It's got a pretty simple network protocol; nquery-pr is just a command-line wrapper for it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer