Re: gdb-7.8 branching status (2014-06-04)

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> I also filed PRs for the gdbserver regressions I had mentioned before.
> 
>  [Bug go/17018] New: XFAIL: gdb.go/hello.exp: Starting string check
>  https://sourceware.org/PR17018
> 
>  [Bug gdb/17019] New: gdb.base/restore.exp failures
>  https://sourceware.org/PR17019
> 
>  [Bug gdb/17020] New: gdb.base/store.exp failures
>  https://sourceware.org/PR17020
> 
>  [Bug gdb/17016] New: XFAIL: gdb.threads/dlopen-libpthread.exp: info probes all rtld rtld_map_complete
>  https://sourceware.org/PR17016
> 
>  [Bug gdb/17015] New: gdb.trace/collection.exp failures
>  https://sourceware.org/PR17015
> 
>  [Bug gdb/17014] New: gdb.trace/unavailable.exp failures
>  https://sourceware.org/PR17014
> 
> Likely most of those are system/gcc related though.  I'm diffing
> against a gdb.sum from a month ago, and I updated my Fedora in
> the mean time...  Still, it's shame that all these are failing
> on newer systems.
> 
> I'll run the testsuite on my current system against 7.7,
> diff the result against mainline, and update the PRs with
> what I find out.  If they fail on 7.7 as well, they're not
> regressions, so can't be blockers.

Thanks for doing that, Pedro. Let us know when you have the results,
so we know whether we're in the clear or not...

-- 
Joel