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Re: [PATCH v11] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types
2016-12-22 19:50 GMT-03:00 Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>:
> I first thought it would pick the system gdb and not the one from $PATH.
What would be the difference between the "system gdb" and the one from
$PATH? Unless you altered your $PATH to make it point to the newly
built gdb, I don't understand what you mean.
> It seems that the new gdb is used, but the test script
> still complaints that the gdb doesn't support python ('gdb must have
> python support to test the pretty printers.'). pexpect should be
> installed for the python that's used. What am I doing wrong?
How did you come to the conclusion that the new gdb is being used?
In any case, I think it would be helpful to see the value of
gdb_python_error before the test script exits.