[PATCH] gdb/testsuite: add a debuginfod-support.exp helper library

Aaron Merey amerey@redhat.com
Fri Sep 16 21:32:17 GMT 2022


Hi Andrew,

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 9:51 AM Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches
<gdb-patches@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> We currently have a single test for GDB's debuginfod support, this is
> gdb.debuginfod/fetch_src_and_symbols.exp, this script does all the
> setup, starts debuginfod, and then does the testing.
>
> This commit tries to split the existing script in two, there is a new
> library lib/debuginfod-support.exp, which contains a helper functions
> related to running debuginfod tests.  All the code in the new library
> is basically copied from the existing test case (which is why I
> retained the copyright date range on the new library), with some minor
> adjustments to try and make the code a little more generic.
>
> One change I made, for example, is the library offers functions to
> shut down debuginfod, previously we just relied on expect shutting
> down debuginfod when dejagnu completed.
>
> The existing test script is updated to make use of the new library
> code, and this test is still passing for me.  The only change in the
> test results is a single test where I changed the name to remove the
> port number from the test name - the port number can change from run
> to run, so could make it hard to compare test results.
>
> I have also done a little light house keeping on the original test
> script, updating and adding new comments, and making use of
> proc_with_prefix in a couple of places.

Thanks for cleaning this up.  The debuginfod tests all pass for me with
this patch applied on F36.  The server process correctly terminates
once the tests are finished, even if I ctrl-c part way through.

Aaron



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