Re: Adding binutils to the GNU Toolchain buildbot on sourceware

Jan Beulich via Gdb
2022-04-28T13:09:10Z

On 28.04.2022 14:10, Nick Clifton wrote:
>> But I'd like to raise the question again: Is what the test was added for
>> actually a useful thing to test, at the risk of the test failing simply
>> because there's too little memory available? Iirc the problem was non-
>> graceful error handling. But the test does not check that the error in
>> question now is handled gracefully; it expects that there be no error.
>
> Sorry - you are right - the test is basically flawed. At this point I am
> tempted to say that the simplest thing would be to just remove it. It is
> not really adding anything to the testsuite. If you want to look into
> crafting a more useful replacement please do, but for now I would suggest
> that we simply delete it.

H.J. did already send a patch to disable (but not delete) it.

Jan