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

Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-09-10T15:30:31Z

On Thursday, September 10 2015, Pedro Alves wrote:

> 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!

Cool. The Fedora buildslaves will update automatically as soon as this
version leaves updates-testing.

> 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.

I can do that.

Thanks,

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