Re: [RFA] Fix testsuite completion.exp test for builddir==srcdir

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>]

Fred Fish wrote:
> 
> If you configure and build in the source tree, the completion.exp
> test produces:
> 
>   FAIL: gdb.base/completion.exp: (timeout) complete 'file ./Make'
>   ERROR: Got interactive prompt.
>   UNRESOLVED: gdb.base/completion.exp: cd to ${srcdir}
>   FAIL: gdb.base/completion.exp: (timeout) complete 'file ./gdb.base/compl'
>   FAIL: gdb.base/completion.exp: (timeout) complete 'info func mar'
>   FAIL: gdb.base/completion.exp: (timeout) complete 'set follow-fork-mode'
> 
> due to having more than one file that completes "./Make".  This patch
> fixes that.
> 
> On a related note, it is probably a bad idea to have these tests depend
> upon details of the source tree like this.  A better long term solution
> would be to create a temporary directory, populate it with some known
> names, and do completions there.  I should probably add this comment to
> the completion.exp header if this patch is approved.
> 
> -Fred
> 

Hi Fred,

Patch approved.  You can add the comment as well.

Thanks for the fix.

Regards,
Fernando


> 2002-05-01  Fred Fish  <fnf@redhat.com>
> 
>         * gdb.base/completion.exp: Handle completions of "./Make" for
>         more than one completion possibility, as is the case when we
>         build and test in the source tree.
> 
> Index: gdb.base/completion.exp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/completion.exp,v
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -c -p -r1.11 completion.exp
> *** gdb.base/completion.exp     13 Jan 2002 22:13:06 -0000      1.11
> --- gdb.base/completion.exp     1 May 2002 14:34:15 -0000
> *************** gdb_expect  {
> *** 631,642 ****
>   #
>   # So, we avoid long lines.  We `cd' to ${objdir} first, and then do
>   # the completion relative to the current directory.
> 
>   gdb_test "cd ${objdir}" "Working directory ${objdir}.*" "cd to \${objdir}"
>   send_gdb "file ./Make\t"
>   sleep 1
>   gdb_expect  {
> !         -re "file ./Makefile.*$"\
>               { send_gdb "\n"
>                 gdb_expect {
>                         -re "\r\nA program is being debugged already\\.  Kill it\\? \\(y or n\\) $"\
> --- 631,645 ----
>   #
>   # So, we avoid long lines.  We `cd' to ${objdir} first, and then do
>   # the completion relative to the current directory.
> + #
> + # Note that if we are building in the source tree, then there will be
> + # more than one completion for ./Make, so we need to handle that also.
> 
>   gdb_test "cd ${objdir}" "Working directory ${objdir}.*" "cd to \${objdir}"
>   send_gdb "file ./Make\t"
>   sleep 1
>   gdb_expect  {
> !         -re "^file ./Make(\\\x07|)file.*$"\
>               { send_gdb "\n"
>                 gdb_expect {
>                         -re "\r\nA program is being debugged already\\.  Kill it\\? \\(y or n\\) $"\

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