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

[Fernando Nasser]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Your scripts.


> 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.
> 

I can change things to accept the second form like setup_xfail does
and just make sure that one with no '-' in it was found (the bug id)
and error out if none was found.  Just let me know if you prefer
this instead of the positional first argument (I am now having
second thoughts about that).


> 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.
> 

Ouch!  That was a typo!!!

Sorry Michael, I meant "XPASS (as XFAILs do)".  There is no reason for
us to have a different category for that (I think).

My apologies.



> 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.
> 

That would be great!  Thanks!

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