Re: canonicalization of path names in test scripts

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:32:50AM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> I'm seeing some FAILs with the testsuite because of different ways to
> expanding srcdir between the testsuite and gdb.
> 
> for example, in gdb.mi/mi-basics.exp, 
> 
>     set envirodir [string_to_regexp ${srcdir}/${subdir}]
> 
>     mi_gdb_test "202-environment-directory ${srcdir}/${subdir}" \
>              "\\\^done,source-path=\"${envirodir}.\\\$cdir.\\\$cwd\"" \
>              "environment-directory arg operation"
> 
> envirodir expands to "\.\./\.\./\.\./gdb-cvs/gdb/testsuite/gdb\.mi.\$cdir.\$cwd" 
> 
> what gdb actually prints is:
> ^done,source-path="/home/tausq/gdb/build-cvs/gdb/testsuite/../../../gdb-cvs/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi:$cdir:$cwd"
> 
> (i am running the test from /home/tausq/gdb/build-cvs/gdb/testsuite)
> 
> what is the best way to fix this? we can of course loosen the match to
> ".*${envirodir}", but that seems rather suboptimal.

I've been working around it by configuring using an absolute path :-)
Alternatively, you could detect this case in the test script.  If the
first character of srcdir is not a directory separator, add `pwd`?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz