[ping] Re: [patch] gdb/testsuite: Fix POSIX-isms in gdb.base/shell.exp

Sandra Loosemore
2020-07-15T19:53:56Z

Ping? I'd like to get this patch into the GDB 10 branch.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169865.html

On 6/24/20 7:35 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> This patch fixes a group of failures in gdb.base/shell.exp on Windows
> host due to assumptions that GDB is launching a POSIX-like shell.  On
> Windows, we get CMD.EXE instead.
>
> There is a potential second group of failures on Windows host not
> addressed by this patch, due to the dependence of some of these tests on
> utilities like wc, sed, and grep.  These tests happen to work for me
> because the test harness connects to the remote host using Cygwin ssh
> and both GDB and CMD.EXE inherit the PATH setting from the parent Cygwin
> shell.  I don't know if disabling those tests on Windows host too is
> appropriate, or again if this is an instance of badly-designed tests
> that could be rewritten to avoid those dependencies.  WDYT?
>
> -Sandra