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Re: [PING][PATCH v9] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:42:14PM -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
> I'm getting very close to completing a new version with the requested
> changes plus a couple other improvements.
>
> One of the last things I need to do is check for the gdb version.
> While I could set gdb 7.7.1 (the earliest version I've tested this on)
> as a hard minimum, there's the issue of the
> RegexpCollectionPrettyPrinter bug, which was fixed for gdb 7.8. This
> is a quite minimal change (just a couple of lines added to a Python
> script) that any user could easily fix manually without having to
> recompile. It's also documented in the README.
The check should look for everything that you need to run the test.
That is, gdb pretty printing support, the ability to write gdb scripts
instead of having to set up a gdbinit, etc. Version checks are not a
reliable filter for bug fixes since bug fixes could have been
backported at a distribution level to a lower version. I'd say skip
the bugs check altogether for now and let distributions either add in
the check if they want to backport or fix the gdb bug in question.
Siddhesh