Re: Linux sigtramp detection code moved to its proper place

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > As a suggestion from left field, I've wondered if gdb.base/selftest.exp
> > should be moved to gdb.wb/selftest.exp (wb == white box) so that people
> > can freely add additional white box tests to GDB.  Checking consistency
> > between config/djgpp/<that-file> and the GDB sources could be part of
> > that testsuite.
> 
> Does that mean that you always run the test suite before preparing the
> snapshots?  If so, how do you know whether a certain new failure is
> grave enough to prevent you from making the snapshot?  I mean, if the
> test for consistency in config/djgpp/<that-file> were added, and it
> failed, how would you know that this is not some minor regression
> (which I assume do happen in other parts of GDB)?

No a snapshot is just that.  No guarentee that it will even build :-/

The reason for suggesting a check in the testsuite was that someone
adding a new file would hopefully run the testsuite after adding their
badly named file and notice the failure.

	Andrew