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Re: Remote testsuite problem: invalid executable cache
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:42:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: Remote testsuite problem: invalid executable cache
- References: <201107221506.p6MF6ZwN024363@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> Some options to fix this problem might include:
>
> - Rewrite the Pyhton tests to not overwrite the same exectuable
> ?file (just use different names).
I am strongly in favor of this option. If you do remote host testing
over NFS, multiple binaries with the same name can lead to bizarre
cache inconsistency. (Sad but true.)
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Thanks,
Daniel