Re: MI testsuite to use PTY for inferior

Nick Roberts
2005-07-31T23:32:14Z

> > I think you should at least test for ptys first, so that the old tests are
> > run if/when they are not available.
>
> Won't do any good - expect relies on PTYs. If the system the tests are
> run on does not have PTYs, it won't have the testsuite either.

I see.

> > More generally I think its wrong to force
> > the frontend to separate the output. Currently, I get reasonable behaviour
> > with Emacs without doing this and would always include interleaved output as a
> > user option.
>
> Would it hurt you to stitch them back together, though? The fewer
> interfaces we have to support, the better...

I guess it would even be safer in cases where the inferior has similar output
e.g debugging GDB itself. However, I thought there were systems where ptys
weren't available (w32?). Even if you can't run the testsuite, you might
still want to run GDB there (actually, I thought FSF GDB *is* being ported to
w32 - how is it tested?).

Nick