Re: [RFA] testsuite cleanups (part 2)

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Elena Zannoni wrote:

> Here, I am observing a peculiar situation. If you run the testsuite in
> a directory that is not the build directory, i.e. the gdb.blah object
> dirs are recreated outside of the build tree, you will see that all
> the tests which use pthreads.c will not compile. This is because
> pthreads.c includes "config.h" which gets created in the build
> gdb/testsuite directory at configure time. Config.h was used to
> determine if there is posix thread support or not, but now we use the
> method of trying to compile with various -lblah so we don't really
> need this anymore.  
>
> It took me a while to notice this failure because I have the bad habit
> of looking just at the unexpected failures, glossing over the
> unsupported results.
>
> OK?
>
> elena
>
> [PS. I assume I used the correct autoconf, but I am nost sure: I used the
> autoconf-000227 snapshot].

In view of the large diffs in configure, I suspect this is indeed the wrong
version of autoconf. The rest of the change is approved. If you don't
easily solve the autoconf issue, you might consider leaving configure
alone -- it's just an extra test...