Re: Dejagnu testsuite

[Manoj Iyer <manjo at austin dot ibm dot com>]

ok, go it! I was able to run the testcase, now I am trying to determine
why the testcase broke/failed, is there a way to re-create the failure
manually by running GDB against the test (using the assertion) that
failed?

--
Manjo

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Jason Molenda wrote:

> Hi Manoj,
>
> On Apr 14, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>
> > Is there any documentation on how to compile and execute the testsuite
> > that is part of the GDB package?
>
> After you've built gdb, and have tcl, expect, and dejagnu pre-installed
> on your system or have them in your build tree, you just run "make
> check-gdb".  Any tests that fail will print a FAIL message to the
> screen; in gdb/testsuite there are two files of note, "gdb.sum" and
> "gdb.log".  The former shows the status of each test which ran.  The
> latter shows all of the communication with gdb during the test run.
>
> There are many ways to change how tests are run, etc., this is most
> easily done with the RUNTESTFLAGS argument to make.  e.g. to run the
> mi-stack.exp tests only you would do
>
> make check-gdb RUNTESTFLAGS=mi-stack.exp
>
> You can also pass "--help" as the RUNTESTFLAGS arg and you'll get a
> list of all the options it will accept.
>
> That should get you started.
>
> Jason
>
>