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[patch] Avoid readline conflicts in pexpect
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:02:54 -0500
- Subject: [patch] Avoid readline conflicts in pexpect
In some cases, sensitive to readline version and the user's
environment, gdb might emit escape codes while run under python's
pexpect (i.e. testing pretty printers). This patch, suggested
by Jan, helps isolate the test from the user's environment.
Tested on RHEL 7 x86_64 with DTS 7 and EPEL, which is one
magic combination of components that triggers this bug.
2019-02-08 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* scripts/test_printers_common.py: Set TERM to a known harmless
value.
diff --git a/scripts/test_printers_common.py b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
index dada6aadde..b2bd4ba1cc 100644
--- a/scripts/test_printers_common.py
+++ b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ TIMEOUTFACTOR = os.environ.get('TIMEOUTFACTOR')
if TIMEOUTFACTOR:
timeout = int(TIMEOUTFACTOR)
+# Otherwise GDB is run in interactive mode and readline may send escape
+# sequences confusing output for pexpect.
+os.environ["TERM"]="dumb"
+
try:
# Check the gdb version.
version_cmd = '{0} --version'.format(gdb_invocation, timeout=timeout)