[PATCH] Make environ.exp run on all platforms (and create info-program.exp)

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

Thanks for the review, Luis.

On Thursday, April 13 2017, Luis Machado wrote:

> On 03/31/2017 12:29 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> This has been on my TODO list for a while.  There's a really old bug
>> about this (PR testsuite/8595), and there was no reason for
>> environ.exp to be specific for hppa* targets.  So this patch removes
>> this constraint, modernizes the testcase, and cleans up some things.
>> Most of the tests remained, and some were rewritten (especially the
>> one that checks if "show environment" works, which is something kind
>> of hard to do).
>>
>> As a bonus, I'm adding a separated info-program.exp file containing
>> all the tests related to "info program" that were present on
>> environ.exp.
>>
>> Tested locally, everything still passes.
>
> I haven't gone through the entire patch, but i have a question. Was
> this exercised for bare-metal?

Nope, I haven't had the chance to test this on bare-metal.

> If not, please make sure this test works correctly on bare-metal
> targets before assuming it does just because it passes on Linux-hosted
> tests. Otherwise we may have spurious failures due to tests that are
> not supposed to be executed in a bare-metal environment.
>
> If you don't have access to bare-metal testing, i could give this a
> try (it may take a couple days though) and report back.

I don't think I have access to a bare-metal easily; if you could test
this, I'd really appreciate.

Thanks,

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