Re: [PATCH 1/8] Fixup testcases outputting own name as a test name

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 2016-11-25 12:37, Luis Machado wrote:
>> I think all these references to $binfile will put the full file
>> path on gdb.sum?  I think you want $testfile instead.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Pedro Alves
>> 
> 
> They will, which may make it easier to just build the files by hand
> with the output from the log file. But it has the potential to be a
> big path.
> 
> I'm fine with either approach.

I think it's fine how you did in the patch.  Most of the time, binfile 
is based on testfile, so Pedro's suggestion would work.  But sometimes, 
we pass something else than binfile as the compilation destination (or 
binfile was overrident), so we would have to remember to use something 
else than testfile to build the error message, it seems easy to forget.  
I think that consistently using the same expression as is passed to 
gdb_compile's dest parameter is a good approach.  Or maybe the error 
should be handled in gdb_compile instead of in each individual test, 
that would be even less error-prone.

Of course, that doesn't hold if the issue about having the full paths in 
the test message is about the reproducibility (test names will have 
different names depending on the path where you build gdb).  But since 
it's only for error test names, I don't know if that's a real problem.