FYI: fix test name in gdb-index.exp
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Wed Aug 28 15:58:00 GMT 2013
Doug> TIL: It's not just that test names have to be unique, but they can no
Doug> longer include build directory names because the latter can be machine
Doug> generated, and when diff'ing before/after runs it can lead to spurious
Doug> output needing investigating.
Yeah, I think it's actually always been that way.
I've fixed a number of these over the years.
Basically anything that makes the test names differ across runs is bad.
This is hard to fix in the general case but something like the directory
name is an easy one.
Doug> Good to know, thanks. And good thing to add to the testcase cookbook.
Will do.
Tom
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