This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [rfc] Remove ptrace-based Alpha OSF support
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: brobecker at adacore dot com (Joel Brobecker)
- Cc: drow at false dot org (Daniel Jacobowitz), gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 23:09:42 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Remove ptrace-based Alpha OSF support
Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Sorry, Ulrich, I have been unable to make expect work on any of
> the Tru64 machines that we have. On one machine, it looks like
> we're exhausting within a few tests the pool of pseudo-ttys. And
> on the other machine, I have what looks like an echo issue that
> completely confuses the testsuite. I tried the obvious tricks
> of re-installing newer versions of tcl and expect, but to no avail.
> Something is weird, because I *thought* I had it working on one
> of the machines before...
Thanks anyway for you efforts! Could you at least verify that
GDB builds and survives a "break main; run" test with the patch?
If that's the case, I guess I'll apply it ...
> Eventually, we will end up testing this patch somewhat, because we
> maintain internally a tree that contains our latest changes merged
> to a recent snapshot of the FSF head, and we test it nightly against
> our in-house testsuite (which does not use expect/dejagnu). We will
> bitterly complain and start pointing fingers if something broke :-P.
Sure, I'll be happy to help if you find problems later on ;-)
Bye,
Ulrich
--
Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com