Re: Dejagnu testsuite

[Jason Molenda <jmolenda at apple dot com>]

Hi Manoj,

On Apr 14, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Manoj Iyer wrote:

> Is there any documentation on how to compile and execute the testsuite
> that is part of the GDB package?

After you've built gdb, and have tcl, expect, and dejagnu pre-installed 
on your system or have them in your build tree, you just run "make 
check-gdb".  Any tests that fail will print a FAIL message to the 
screen; in gdb/testsuite there are two files of note, "gdb.sum" and 
"gdb.log".  The former shows the status of each test which ran.  The 
latter shows all of the communication with gdb during the test run.

There are many ways to change how tests are run, etc., this is most 
easily done with the RUNTESTFLAGS argument to make.  e.g. to run the 
mi-stack.exp tests only you would do

make check-gdb RUNTESTFLAGS=mi-stack.exp

You can also pass "--help" as the RUNTESTFLAGS arg and you'll get a 
list of all the options it will accept.

That should get you started.

Jason