Build Pass from file name hyphen->underscore

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@redhat.com
Thu Dec 3 16:21:00 GMT 2009


Hi,

I'm not sure why don't we just add below code ;-)

for (s = modname; *s != '\0'; s++)
	if (*s == '-')
		*s = '_';

Thank you,

David Smith wrote:
> On 12/03/2009 09:18 AM, naresh kamboju wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:07 AM, David Smith<dsmith@redhat.com>  wrote:
>>> On 12/02/2009 07:11 AM, naresh kamboju wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have been investigating SystemTap test suite, its sub modules and
>>>> expected pass and expected failures.
>>>>
>>>> As per my investigation I have noticed there are test cases name with
>>>> – hyphen are not able to build. When I have changed it to underscore _
>>>> it is able to build.
>>>> As per stap, If you add ‘-‘ (hyphen) in the file name, then stap is
>>>> able to consider as invalid module name.
>>>>
>>>> BUILD_FAIL                            BUILD_PASS
>>>> aux_syscalls-embedded.stp ->  aux_syscalls_embedded.stp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There were almost 36 test cases in this category.
>>>> Are considering these expected failures?
>>>
>>> This doesn't make much sense to me.  Yes, '-' is an illegal character in
>>> a module name, but that doesn't matter here.  Besides the fact that
>>> aux_syscalls-embedded.stp just gets compiled and not actually inserted,
>>> that isn't the module name.  Systemtap generated a random string of the
>>> form 'stap_XXXXX...' for the module name (unless someone uses the '-m
>>> NAME' option).
>> I agree with this.
>>>
>>> So, unless someone is doing 'stap -m aux_syscalls-embedded
>>> aux_syscalls-embedded.stp', the above problem shouldn't exist.
>>>
>> In my case I have been investigating each module behavior and functionality.
>> Because of that have to use –m options for each build.
>> If it is like stap_XXX, I could not find from where it is generated.
>
> I'm confused here. Are you running all the modules at once?  If not, how
> are you getting confused about which script you are running?
>
>> So, shall I take up this issue and fix?
>>
>> I hope this would be helpful for the most of the developers.
>> It would be 36 test cases.
>
> I'm still not sure I see a problem here since the testsuite works correctly.
>

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Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com



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