This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PING 2][PATCH v3] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types


On 03/01/2016 01:24 PM, Martin Galvan wrote:
> As you wish. I may have a couple more questions regarding the
> cross-testing stuff as I dwell on.
> 
> However, before I continue: a couple e-mails ago I mentioned the test
> scripts will be based on PExpect (which has a GPL-compatible license).
> I want to confirm again this is acceptable before I keep working on
> this. If necessary I could add some code to check if PExpect is
> present before trying to run the tests.

I don't see any problem with using or requiring that PExpect be installed
on the development system to run these tests. It should be possible to
mark the tests as UNSUPPORTED if pexpect is not present (which can be
done dynamically by exiting with the reserved error code 77 IIRC).

Cheers,
Carlos.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]