From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19581 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2008 11:45:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 19545 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Feb 2008 11:45:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail1.nsc.com (HELO mailgate1.nsc.com) (12.151.32.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:45:15 +0000 X-WSS-ID: 0JVK61E-05-5OL-01 Received: from SCNTRDCSS6.nsc.com (emf.nsc.com [192.168.7.28]) by mailgate1.nsc.com (Tumbleweed MailGate) with ESMTP id 7081A38096161 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:46:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.188.132.130] by SCNTRDCSS6.nsc.com with ESMTP (-Hi-); Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:45:03 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: CDE0D3F6-4EC6-4DC9-81EF-DBBF12AF9A3C Received: from [139.187.78.222] by scmh1.nsc.com with ESMTP; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:45:02 -0800 Message-ID: <47A30626.9070600@nsc.com> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:45:00 -0000 From: "M R Swami Reddy" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jim Blandy" cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb testsuite References: <4799B660.2080905@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801251016y1a4cfbcfp35fab5ecacee8b1d@mail.gmail.com> <479D62DA.4080100@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801281050w4ae2d83fw53b793ba633302e1@mail.gmail.com> <479EC263.3060107@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801291221g106e39acw493a3b9e0a8e7798@mail.gmail.com> <47A073FD.9060103@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801300956q276d3cdahcc6fe3855983b8c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0801300956q276d3cdahcc6fe3855983b8c@mail.gmail.com> X-WSS-ID: 6BBDD9B613S277298-03-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Hi Jim, Thanks a bundle for your kind response. > It's not obvious to me where the -lm comes from. gdb/testsuite/lib > contains a number of files that are also involved in running the > tests; in particular, gdb_compile is defined in > gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp. OK. I will explore the 'lib' directory. > One unfortunate characteristic of the GDB test suite is that, even if > GDB is horribly broken, many tests will still pass. You can't have > much confidence that things are basically working with 356 failures. > You should look through gdb.log and work through a bunch of them to > get a feel for the state of things. Thats true. Yes, iam going through the gdb.log file and analyzing the failures further. > If you're going to do any significant amount of work with the test > suite, I would recommend investing a little time in learning the Tcl > language. It's built on some very simple concepts, and knowing how > those actually work, instead of guessing based on the resemblance > between Tcl and more familiar languages, will save confusion in the > future. I think there are tutorials on-line somewhere. OK. I will look into the Tcl language. Thanks, Swami