Re: [RFA/testsuite] Suppress errors building thread tests

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> 
> Recommended for self-approval by Daniel J.
> 
> Proofread and tested.  All the pthreads library noise is gone
> from gdb.sum.  The results for gcore-thread.exp, print-threads.exp,
> and schedlock.exp are fine.
> 
> > Note the use of gdb_suppress_entire_file.  I'm just doing that because it's
> > what the other tests do; I really dislike gdb_suppress_entire_file, so I
> > think I may send along a followup patch to change it to a "return -1".
> > gdb_compile_pthreads already does an "unsupported" if compilation fails. If
> > we can't build the threads tests, there's no point in FAILing them, in my
> > opinion; this clutters up results when I run simulator testing.  Thoughts?
> 
> I'm with you.  If compilation+linking fails, I am fine with one
> UNSUPPORTED per test script.  It would be even better if the UNSUPPORTED's
> come from a known unsupported list rather than dynamic conditions.
> 
> Michael C

Ditto.
Michael S.