From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2150 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2003 17:12:19 -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 2142 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2003 17:12:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duracef.shout.net) (204.253.184.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2003 17:12:11 -0000 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0GHC7S15439; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:12:07 -0600 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:12:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200301161712.h0GHC7S15439@duracef.shout.net> To: drow@mvista.com, fnasser@redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Remove all setup_xfail's from testsuite/gdb.mi/ Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00612.txt.bz2 Daniel writes: > Associating a PR with them is a different issue. Just because we > associate a PR doesn't mean we have to use KFAIL. Fernando writes: > 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. Okay, I can live with that. As long as there is a *gdb* bug id on it; that is the important part to me. For the mechanics, we can set 'class=suspended', or maybe we can add a new class to gnats. > Why doing this? A script can go through the KFAILs (for each platform) > and, by reading the Gnats database, automatically create a KNOWN BUGS > man page section, or a section of a Release Notes document. Right now, I do this for native i686-pc-linux-gnu for every release candidate. So it helps a lot when all KFAIL's and XFAIL's point to a place where we can write analysis notes. > P.S.: Does someone know how to programatically access the Gnats database? I don't know. You could do screen scraping with URL's like the ones that I post in the sunday project reports. Michael C