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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: bigcore.exp on 64-bit systems
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ups9ihks4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070113152058.GA27250@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:20:59 -0500)

> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:20:59 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> > On this machine, bigcore.exp is a pest: it runs for a very long time,
> > produces a humongous core file (so large that I expect the sysadmins
> > to send me angry emails), and eventually fails (or so it seems).
> > Here's what gdb.sum says about it:
> 
> The core file is probably not that large.  Could you check with 'du'?

You are right, it's only 3.9MB.  But the test still fails with
timeout.

> If it is a sufficient nuisance, perhaps we should add a way for you
> to disable the test.

I can always rename the .exp file, like Joel suggested, but it seems
unclean to remove test files to disable them.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-13 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-13 14:09 Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 14:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-01-13 14:50 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-13 15:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 18:31   ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-01-13 19:23     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-13 19:33       ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-13 21:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 15:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-13 17:57   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-01-13 18:01     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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