From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 15991@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15991: 24.3.50; Wishlist: Make test suite user-friendlier
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:57:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8361jnpq0j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lt7g434o4l.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 15991@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:44:10 -0400
>
>
> > Also, suppose one needs to run Emacs under a debugger for running a
> > test -- there doesn't seem to be a convenient way of doing that,
> > either. Once again, start Emacs manually in GDB, then copy/paste the
> > command line there, and be sure to set the environment variables, like
> > EMACS_TEST_DIRECTORY before starting GDB. Wait, and what if the test
> > forks, and you need to attach GDB to the correct Emacs process?
>
> (But none of the Emacs Makefiles provide any such gdb facility?)
Most Emacs programs are interactive, so it's relatively easy to run
them under a debugger. The test suite runs Emacs with a non-trivial
and quite long command line, so it's harder.
> All I can suggest here is that the Makefile define a GDB variable,
> normally empty, that you can set to "gdb" on the make command-line when
> you want to.
I guess it would be OK, if $GDB could be set to "gdb --args". Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-26 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-28 20:04 bug#15991: 24.3.50; Wishlist: Make test suite user-friendlier Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-28 20:13 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-28 22:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-26 6:05 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-26 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-26 15:20 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-26 15:42 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-26 15:49 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-27 7:23 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-27 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-27 8:57 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-27 15:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-27 18:12 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-27 18:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-28 1:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-28 17:12 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-29 13:30 ` Michael Albinus
2014-06-26 16:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-26 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-06-26 17:00 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-27 5:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-06-27 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-27 10:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-06-27 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-28 17:19 ` Glenn Morris
2014-06-28 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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