Re: testsuite errors on Red Hat 8.0

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

David Carlton writes:
 > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:28:10 -0400, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
 > > Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:06:26PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
 > 
 > >> > I just updated GDB on my laptop for the first time in a while, and I'm
 > >> > seeing some new testsuite errors: in gdb.base/completion.exp, I get:
 > >> > 
 > >> > FAIL: gdb.base/completion.exp: (timeout) complete 'info func mar'
 > >> 
 > >> I think Elena posted a patch for this one that hasn't been applied yet?
 > 
 > > No I haven't. Can you try it and see if it fixes the fail?
 > 
 > Yeah, it does.  (Well, it does after I deleted the files
 > 'completion.exp.patch' and 'completion.exp.orig' that I created in
 > gdb.base; too bad completion.exp is so sensitive to these things!)
 > Incidentally, should the test be renamed to
 > 
 >   completion 'info func marke'
 > 
 > instead of
 > 
 >   completion 'info func mar'
 > 

Yes, good point, I missed that. I think this should be changed
accordingly, otherwise it's hard to look at the PASS/FAIL and see
which version of completion.exp one is using.

 > ?  Or would that just annoy people doing regression testing?
 > 
 > >> > FAIL: gdb.base/completion.exp: (timeout) complete 'set follow-fork-mode'
 > >> 
 > >> Huh, not seen this one before.
 > 
 > > wonder if this is just a cascade failure because of the timeouts.
 > 
 > It was.
 > 

ahh good.

 > David Carlton
 > carlton@math.stanford.edu