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Re: [Tcl/Tk 8.3 upgrade] Testing...
- To: Ian Roxborough <irox at evilpeople dot com>
- Subject: Re: [Tcl/Tk 8.3 upgrade] Testing...
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:58:56 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Ian Roxborough wrote:
> I'm wondering what state the gdbtk test suit is in. I'd really
> like to use it to make sure that I don't break anything while
> moving over to Tcl/Tk 8.3.
I just revamped the whole thing. It should now run. See
gdb/testsuite/gdb.gdbtk/README for some (painful) details.
> When I do a "make check" on gdb build with the current version of
> Tcl/Tk I get a bunch of failures in the gdbtk tests. However if
> I do a "make check" on a gdb build with Tcl/Tk 8.3 it doesn't seem
> to get any fails on the gdbtk tests. I'm assuming that this is
> because it's skipping over them?
There's probably an error. I presume that one of the *_LIBRARY env vars
that the testsuite exports is not good. What does gdb/testsuite/gdb.log
show? (Try running only one test: make RUNTESTFLAGS="browser.exp"
check-gdb)
> There are a number of places that gdbtk should be failing when
> build with Tcl/Tk 8.3. One place is the proc escape_value
> (in prefs.tcl) which is using a regsub call to match "[]". This
> and some other regexp/regsub need changed to work with Tcl/Tk 8.3,
> the changes aren't really such a big deal, but I'd be happier to
> see them fail in the test suit before I start fixing them.
Huh. The testsuite is in its infancy (still). It tests almost nothing...
Keith