gdb-7.7.1

[Fernando de Oliveira]

​http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.7.1.tar.bz2

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Too many problems with the tests.

[Fernando de Oliveira]

For now, the number of failures/errors seem to depend on many variables.

1. Compilers installed (Fortran, Ada, etc.).
2. Tests made locally or remotely.
3. Some timeout variable.
4. Some environment variables being set or not.

Other problems:

5. Time for the tests is more than 13 SBU.
6. Very different reasons for the failures, I did not mention, because do not remember anymore.
7. The numbers are big: over 40000 tests, almost 1000 unexpected failures, etc.
8. Unexpected Success: 1.

My last results were:

# of expected passes		41283
# of unexpected failures	805
# of unexpected successes	1
# of expected failures		82
# of known failures		66
# of unresolved testcases	37
# of untested testcases		55
# of unsupported tests		150

Changing value of the somethin?timeout env variable, numbers of failures changes, but what got me out is that the total number of tests is not conserved.

I have the impression that the tests of this package are for the package developers and we should remove from the book.

I am almost ready to update the package, without considering the tests.

I may be wrong in all I wrote above, that is the reason for giving back to the book. I think soem people with more patience and/or knowledge could do a better judgement.

[Fernando de Oliveira]

I will "not recommend" the tests.

Please, if someone disagrees, feel free to fix.

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Fixed at r13027.