From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25625 invoked by alias); 6 May 2007 21:09:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 25612 invoked by uid 22791); 6 May 2007 21:09:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate2.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate2.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.151) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 06 May 2007 21:09:48 +0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate2.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l46L9hZY032212 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 21:09:43 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l46L9hTB3846254 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 23:09:43 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l46L9gWe019692 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 23:09:43 +0200 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id l46L9goP019689; Sun, 6 May 2007 23:09:42 +0200 Message-Id: <200705062109.l46L9goP019689@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 6 May 2007 23:09:42 +0200 Subject: Re: [rfc] Remove ptrace-based Alpha OSF support To: brobecker@adacore.com (Joel Brobecker) Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 21:09:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" Cc: drow@false.org (Daniel Jacobowitz), gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <20070505042436.GB3798@adacore.com> from "Joel Brobecker" at May 04, 2007 09:24:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-05/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker wrote: > Sorry, Ulrich, I have been unable to make expect work on any of > the Tru64 machines that we have. On one machine, it looks like > we're exhausting within a few tests the pool of pseudo-ttys. And > on the other machine, I have what looks like an echo issue that > completely confuses the testsuite. I tried the obvious tricks > of re-installing newer versions of tcl and expect, but to no avail. > Something is weird, because I *thought* I had it working on one > of the machines before... Thanks anyway for you efforts! Could you at least verify that GDB builds and survives a "break main; run" test with the patch? If that's the case, I guess I'll apply it ... > Eventually, we will end up testing this patch somewhat, because we > maintain internally a tree that contains our latest changes merged > to a recent snapshot of the FSF head, and we test it nightly against > our in-house testsuite (which does not use expect/dejagnu). We will > bitterly complain and start pointing fingers if something broke :-P. Sure, I'll be happy to help if you find problems later on ;-) Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com