From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Running selftests in GDB
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 16:52:29 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2010041648350.333514@eddie.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pn65lu67.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb wrote:
> > By default, GDB built from a release tarball doesn't include the
> > selftest. I've configured GDB with --enable-unit-tests, and then some
> > selftests are available. But not all: a development version runs 63
> > unit tests, whereas the release version configured with unit tests
> > runs only 24.
> >
> > How do I enable all the selftests that are available in the
> > development build?
>
> Answering myself: after reconfiguring with --enable-unit-tests, one
> should make sure gdb/init.c is regenerated. It looks like it won't be
> regenerated, unless you touch one of the source files mentioned in
> COMMON_SFILES by gdb/Makefile.
It looks like a dependency needs to be added to gdb/Makefile.in for
gdb/init.c on whatever is changed with `--enable-unit-tests' that affects
the file; can you run a diff on the object tree configured with and
without the option to figure out what has changed that affects gdb/init.c?
Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-04 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-28 9:33 Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 15:52 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2020-10-04 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 17:56 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-10-04 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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