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Re: ping: [patch+7.8] PR testsuite/16602 runtest deletes files in-src-tree
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:53:36 +0100
- Subject: Re: ping: [patch+7.8] PR testsuite/16602 runtest deletes files in-src-tree
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On 08/18/2014 08:16 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Jan Kratochvil
> <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:33:11 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:27:24 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>>> Maybe that's fine. Maybe we should just never delete
>>>> these files, even on remote host testing. Dunno.
>>>
>>> I have no opinion what should happen in all the other cases, there are many
>>> options how the testsuite could behave. Just currently it is broken for the
>>> IMO most simple srcdir builds.
>>
>> What is the maintainers' decision how the testsuite should behave so that
>> I can code the appropriate patch?
>
> Hi.
>
> For reference sake,
> My current opinion is that there's no point in deleting the files,
> even with remote host testing.
> And there is value in not deleting them.
> ref: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-08/msg00282.html
I agree.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves