Fix gdb.base/gcorebg.exp and --program-prefix
When GDB is configured with --program-prefix, we see:
Running /home/pedro/gdb/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gcorebg.exp ...
FAIL: gdb.base/gcorebg.exp: detached=detached: Spawned gcore finished
FAIL: gdb.base/gcorebg.exp: detached=detached: Core file generated by gcore
FAIL: gdb.base/gcorebg.exp: detached=standard: Spawned gcore finished
FAIL: gdb.base/gcorebg.exp: detached=standard: Core file generated by gcore
The problem is here (with --program-prefix=prefix-), from gdb.log:
gcore: GDB binary (/home/pedro/gdb/build-program-prefix/gdb/testsuite/../../gdb/prefix-gdb) not found
FAIL: gdb.base/gcorebg.exp: detached=detached: Spawned gcore finished
That is gcore (the script, not the GDB command) trying to run the
installed GDB:
if [ ! -f "$binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@" ]; then
echo "gcore: GDB binary (${binary_path}/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@) not found"
exit 1
fi
...
"$binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@" </dev/null \
...
When running the testsuite with the just-built GDB, the GDB binary is
'gdb', not @GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@.
Fix this by adding a new '-g gdb" option to the 'gcore' script, that
lets you override the GDB binary gcore runs, and then making
gdb.base/gcorebg.exp pass it to gcore. The GDB binary we're testing
is always in the $GDB global. This is similar to how it is already
possible to specify GDB's data directory with an option to gcore, and
then gdb.base/gcorebg.exp uses it.
NEWS and documentation changes included.
Approved-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Change-Id: I6c60fba8768618eeba8d8d03b131dc756b57ee78
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