Re: [PATCH] Remove symlinks created in argv0-symlink.exp and general cleanup

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 08/03/2015 04:16 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:

> The problem is that it also affects when running other tests.
> For example, doing a
> 
>   $ make check RUNTESTFLAGS="argv0-symlink.exp"
> 
> and then
> 
>   $ make check RUNTESTFLAGS="whatis.exp"
> 
> gives
> 
>   http://paste.ubuntu.com/11993577/

Urgh.  Maybe there's some other change to argv0-symlink.exp
that could be made to avoid this?  I haven't looked at this
in enough detail to give a good informed suggestion, but
maybe putting the symlink elsewhere?

> 
> At least, it's possible to avoid it by doing
> 
>   $ make check RUNTESTFLAGS="gdb.base/whatis.exp"
> 
> instead.  However, it also affect those as well:
> 
>   $ make check
>   $ make check RUNTESTFLAGS="--directory=gdb.base"
> 
> runtest will find all tests recursively, resulting in this:
> 
>   http://paste.ubuntu.com/11993659/
> 
> Building out-of-tree would avoid this altogether, of course.  The
> reason I build in-tree is that I use a script [1] to regression-test
> my patches.  The script is a bit dumb and requires to build in the
> git repo.  I think I'll improve it a bit to make it possible to
> build OOT.

Personally, I'd vote for making in-tree builds, or at least testing,
officially unsupported.  I think gcc already does so...

> 
> Simon
> 
> [1] https://github.com/simark/gdb-check
> 

Thanks,
Pedro Alves