Running gdb.base/libsegfault.exp on Cygwin, in parallel mode causes
badness:
$ make check-parallel TESTS="gdb.base/libsegfault.exp"
...
Running /home/alves/gdb/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/libsegfault.exp ...
0 [main] expect 6611 C:\cygwin64\bin\expect.exe: *** fatal error in forked process - error while loading shared libraries: libSegFault.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** starting '"C:\cygwin64\bin\dumper.exe" -n "C:\cygwin64\bin\expect.exe" 8012' for pid 6611, tid 7992
*** continuing pid 6611
parent: sync byte write: broken pipe
make[1]: *** [Makefile:320: check/gdb.base/libsegfault.exp] Error 255
make[1]: Target 'do-check-parallel' not remade because of errors.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/alves/gdb/build-cygwin-testsuite'
outputs/gdb.base/libsegfault/gdb.sum: no recognised summary line
outputs/gdb.base/libsegfault/gdb.log: no recognised summary line
make: *** [Makefile:260: check-parallel] Error 2
$
I.e., Expect's spawn fails, and that brings down the whole Expect
process, for some reason. The result is that we end up with
incomplete gdb.sum/gdb.log files, which dg-extract-results.sh can't
process. Since libSegFault.so is a glibc feature that doesn't exist
on Cygwin, just skip the test there.
Change-Id: I44bdbffa25a5d21c5019418b68776d334a57be26
# the local machine.
require {!is_remote host}
+# On Cygwin, the testcase would somehow end up trying to preload
+# libSegFault.so into the Expect process, which would fail and crash
+# it. Since libSegFault.so is a glibc feature that doesn't exist on
+# Cygwin, just skip testing there.
+require {!expr {[isbuild "*-*-cygwin*"] && [ishost "*-*-cygwin*"]}}
+
# Spawn GDB with LIB preloaded with LD_PRELOAD. CMDLINE_OPTS are
# command line options passed to GDB.