Re: [PATCH] gdb/testsuite: fix gdb.guile/scm-parameter.exp "wrong type argument" test pattern

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@embecosm.com>]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, Simon Marchi wrote:

> I believe that the first two lines are output by Guile itself, in the
> SCM_ASSERT_TYPE macro.  I tried on different systems, different Guile
> versions (2.0, 2.2 and 3.0) and I always get the former output, never
> the output the test expects.  I presume the patch below isn't right, as
> there is surely some systems that do print the latter output, otherwise
> Maciej (the original author) would have noticed it.  I presume we'll
> need to accept both outputs.  But I'd like we if could clarify when we
> get which.

 FTR I'm still looking into it and like you I have hesitated to just paper 
the issue over by allowing both outputs without first understanding what 
is really going on here.  I cannot rule out a distribution-specific patch 
causing a discrepancy here, but I feel like tracking it down.

 NB guile 2.0.13 here, reporting as:

guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.13
Packaged by Debian (2.0.13-deb+1-5.4)

(and it seems like I have said version consistently throughout my relevant 
development machines except for different "-deb+..." suffixes).  It must 
have had long distribution maintenance history.

  Maciej