Re: so-thresh.exp problems

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>]

Jeff, I will be on vacations soon, so please consider any
changes to testsuite/gdb.hp pre-approved.  You can even re-add
yourself as a maintainer for that bit if you want (just make
an obvious patch to MAINTAINERS).

Cheers,
Fernando

law@redhat.com wrote:
> 
>   > Nobody currently maintains the gdb.hp part of the testsuite,
> It shows.  Then again, I have my reservations about the quality of the
> code when it was installed.
> 
> For example, I just had the pleasure of finding out that HP's thread tests
> all rely on a magic pre-built binary becuase they couldn't get the testfile
> to build on hpux11.  Of course we don't even have that binary and if we
> did, it'd probably be a GPL violation to distribute it.  I'll be disabling
> those tests shortly :(
> 
>   > so you
>   > can check fixes in if you want.  I am sure it will improve things.
> It can't hurt.  Particularly when it's pretty clear that nobody's built/tested
> GDB on hpux11 since Jan 2001.
> 
>   > But I don't know about gdb/somsolib.c.  As a "Past Maintainer", you are
>   > probably the closest thing we have for an HP maintainer :-)  But is not
>   > my call.
> Understood.
> jeff

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