Re: testsuite errors on Red Hat 8.0

Elena Zannoni
2003-04-16T19:06:55Z

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