Re: Obsolete/remove Solaris < 10 [was: Re: Fix gdb 8.1 Solaris compilation]

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 09/26/2017 03:18 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 
> On 09/26/2017 12:20 PM, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>
>> Testing is very weird, though: Linux/x86_64 only shows a few failures,
>> but Solaris is a mess: on Solaris 10, the vast majority of tests time
>> out (although gdb seems to work reasonably well interactively), while
>> many more work on Solaris 11.4 until testing runs into what seems an
>> infinite loop of
>>
>> FAIL: gdb.mi/mi-exec-run.exp: inferior-tty=main: mi=main: force-fail=1: run failure detected (timeout)
> 
> I recall once trying to run the testsuite on OpenSolaris
> (several years ago, maybe 2008.11, though I don't really
> recall exactly), and running into lots and lots of timeouts.
> I think it had something to do with gdb + expect + dejagnu not
> agreeing over end lines, \r\n vs \n, etc.  ISTR trying to
> work around it with stty settings.  
> 
> I'm having trouble finding the email in the archives, though.

Bah, I was looking in the wrong list, that's why...

Here it is:
 https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-07/msg00292.html
and the workaround:
 https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-08/msg00144.html

Thanks,
Pedro Alves