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Re: RFC: Improving support for known testsuite failures
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 07:16, Richard Guenther
> <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, you'd need to maintain a list of known XPASS/FAILs anyway.
>
> Yes, of course. ?That's the manifest of things you expect to be broken.
>
>> You can as well do it in the testcases themself (add XFAILs, remove
>> XPASSes and open bugreports to not forget about this). ?Adding
>> a separate filter or whatever just looks completely wrong to me.
>
> The main motivation is precisely not have to deal with dejagnu's xfail
> mechanisms. ?They are too cumbersome ?(details upthread).
Well, I'd rather _fix_ dejagnu then. Any specific example you can't
eventually xfail by dg-skipping the testcase?
> Perhaps if there was a global marker that one could add, that would
> solve my problem too. ?I think I'll start with a post-check filter in
> contrib/
You seem to have a very specific problem ;) I suppose some
patch autotester? Our patch autotester simply bootstraps twice
and compares the result.
Richard.
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> Diego.
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