Re: Extra diagnostic for tests

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> Date:  Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:19:22 +0400
> 
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > at the moment, the dejagnu tests use PATH to find the gdb binary, and
> > don't report which gdb binary is used. As result, when running runtest
> > manually on one test, one can test with different gdb from the one used by
> > 'make check'.
> > 
> > The attached patch makes gdb print to log file the location of gdb, and
> > also makes sure invocation parameters are always printed to log file.
> > While we're on it, the 'serialport' parameter to 'target' command is also
> > reported.
> 
> So, what's opinion on this patch, after all?

I think it is unnecessary, since...

> Speaking of gdb PATH, I've noticed that the very last line of dejagnu output
> contains the full path to gdb -- apparently I used 'Ctrl-C' too much.
> 
> Anyway, I think getting this information into log file is still desirable,
> and it makes sure that .log file is sufficient to reproduce a test
> failures -- console output might be no longer handy.

It is printed at the end of the run, both in gdb.sum and gdb.log.

Mark