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Re: bigcore.exp on 64-bit systems
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:57:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: bigcore.exp on 64-bit systems
- References: <u4pqvhvby.fsf@gnu.org> <20070113152058.GA27250@nevyn.them.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:20:59 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
>
> > On this machine, bigcore.exp is a pest: it runs for a very long time,
> > produces a humongous core file (so large that I expect the sysadmins
> > to send me angry emails), and eventually fails (or so it seems).
> > Here's what gdb.sum says about it:
>
> The core file is probably not that large. Could you check with 'du'?
You are right, it's only 3.9MB. But the test still fails with
timeout.
> If it is a sufficient nuisance, perhaps we should add a way for you
> to disable the test.
I can always rename the .exp file, like Joel suggested, but it seems
unclean to remove test files to disable them.