gdb/testsuite: Installed-GDB testing & data-directory
In testsuite/README, we suggest that you can run the testsuite against
some other GDB binary by using:
make check RUNTESTFLAGS=GDB=/usr/bin/gdb
However, that example isn't fully correct, because with that command
line, the testsuite will still pass
-data-directory=[pwd]/../data-directory
to /usr/bin/gdb, like e.g.:
...
builtin_spawn /usr/bin/gdb -nw -nx -data-directory /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/../data-directory -iex set height 0 -iex set width 0
...
while if you're testing an installed GDB (the system GDB being the
most usual scenario), then you should normally let it use its own
configured directory, not the just-built GDB's data directory.
This commit improves the status quo with the following two changes:
- if the user specifies GDB on the command line, then by default,
don't start GDB with the -data-directory command line option.
I.e., let the tested GDB use its own configured data directory.
- let the user override the data directory, via a new
GDB_DATA_DIRECTORY global. This replaces the existing
BUILD_DATA_DIRECTORY variable in testsuite/lib/gdb.exp, which
wasn't overridable, and was a bit misnamed for the new purpose.
So after this, the following commands I believe behave intuitively:
# Test the non-installed GDB in some build dir:
make check \
RUNTESTFLAGS="GDB=/path/to/other/build/gdb \
GDB_DATA_DIRECTORY=/path/to/other/build/gdb/data-directory"
# Test the GDB installed in some prefix:
make check \
RUNTESTFLAGS="GDB=/opt/gdb/bin/gdb"
# Test the built GDB with some alternative data directory, e.g., the
system GDB's data directory:
make check \
RUNTESTFLAGS="GDB_DATA_DIRECTORY=/usr/share/gdb"
Change-Id: Icdc21c85219155d9564a9900961997e6624b78fb
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