Re: RFC: KFAILs [Was: [RFA/mi-testsuite] XFAIL mi*-console.exp]

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>]

Fernando Nasser writes:

fna> KFAIL: could not run to marker1 (PRMS gdb/999)
fna> Would that make the scripts happy?

Err, I'm not sure if you mean the dejagnu scripts, or my scripts.
My scripts are happy with this format.

A lot of tests use "(...)" for various things, so the "PRMS"
and "gdb/NNN" bits need to be mandatory in order to pick out this
information from the noise.

fna> setup_kfail "gdb/999" *-*-*

Fine with me.  setup_kfail *-*-* "gdb/999" is fine with me as well.

fna> 4) Note that, when a test that was expected to fail due to a known
fna> bug suddenly starts to pass, it becomes a KPASS (as XFAILs do).

Okay, I added a KPASS column to my tables.

fna> I will do it in Perl (I still don't know how to programmatically access
fna> the Gnats database though).  But I have very little spare time, so I
fna> will not mind if someone that can do it sooner volunteers to do this.

You can access the Gnats database through a URL:

  http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gdb&cmd=view&pr=460

For programmatic access, there may already be a more suitable "cmd" than
"cmd=view", or someone may need to update gnatsweb.pl.

I volunteer to write Perl analysis scripts.  My test bed is almost all Perl,
and I am planning to release it.

Michael C