Re: Racy failures on gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp (native-extended-gdbserver/-m64)

Pedro Alves
2015-09-10T13:44:08Z

On 08/18/2015 12:29 AM, Patrick Palka wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> wro

>> But I just locally installed dejagnu from git, and have had the above
>> command running for about 30 minutes (after confirming that my local
>> copy, not system copy, of dejagnu is being used by the testsuite), and
>> fortunately, I could no longer reproduce these FAILs. So it seems
>> that your changes to dejagnu fixed this spurious FAIL as well. I'll
>> let it keep spinning though, just in case.

> Anyway, with dejagnu from git I could no longer reproduce these FAILs
> after 3 straight hours of repeatedly running the test.

(almost a month passed somehow, but ...) Hurray!

The DejaGnu patch has been backported to Fedora 21-23 meanwhile, so hopefully
these issues will start to fade away. Someone might want to contact the
debian / ubuntu dejagnu maintainers to do the same.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves