Make gdb.base/corefile.exp work on terminals with few rows

When creating a pty to spawn a subprocess (such as gdb), Expect
copies the settings of its own controlling terminal, including the
number of rows and columns.  If you "make check" on a terminal with just
a few rows (e.g. 4), GDB will paginate before reaching the initial
prompt.  In default_gdb_start, used by most tests, this is already
handled: if we see the pagination prompt, we sent \n to continue.

Philippe reported that gdb.base/corefile.exp didn't work in terminals
with just a few rows.  This test spawns GDB by hand, because it needs to
check things before the initial prompt, which it couldn't do if it used
default_gdb_start.

In this case I think it's not safe to use the same technique as in
default_gdb_start.  Even if we could send a \n if we see a pagination
prompt, we match some multiline regexes in there.  So if a pagination
slips in there, it might make the regexes not match and fail the test.

It's also not possible to use -ex "set height 0" or -iex "set height 0",
it is handled after the introduction text is shown.

The simplest way I found to avoid showing the pagination completely is
to set stty_init (documented in expect's man page) to initialize gdb's
pty with a fixed number of rows.

And actually, if we set stty_init in gdb_init, it works nicely as a
general solution applicable to all tests.  We can therefore remove the
solution introduced in e882ef3cfc ("testsuite: expect possible
pagination when starting gdb") where we matched the pagination prompt
during startup.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* lib/gdb.exp (default_gdb_start): Don't match pagination
	prompt.
	(gdb_init): Set stty_init.
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Simon Marchi 2019-02-07 09:22:29 -05:00
parent 46e3ed7ff9
commit bd447abb24
2 changed files with 26 additions and 24 deletions

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@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
2019-02-07 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
* lib/gdb.exp (default_gdb_start): Don't match pagination
prompt.
(gdb_init): Set stty_init.
2019-01-27 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.python/py-finish-breakpoint.exp: Remove duplicate call to

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@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@ proc default_gdb_spawn { } {
# Default gdb_start procedure.
proc default_gdb_start { } {
global gdb_prompt pagination_prompt
global gdb_prompt
global gdb_spawn_id
global inferior_spawn_id
@ -1659,29 +1659,20 @@ proc default_gdb_start { } {
# When running over NFS, particularly if running many simultaneous
# tests on different hosts all using the same server, things can
# get really slow. Give gdb at least 3 minutes to start up.
set loop_again 1
while { $loop_again } {
set loop_again 0
gdb_expect 360 {
-re "$pagination_prompt" {
verbose "Hit pagination during startup. Pressing enter to continue."
send_gdb "\n"
set loop_again 1
}
-re "\[\r\n\]$gdb_prompt $" {
verbose "GDB initialized."
}
-re "$gdb_prompt $" {
perror "GDB never initialized."
unset gdb_spawn_id
return -1
}
timeout {
perror "(timeout) GDB never initialized after 10 seconds."
remote_close host
unset gdb_spawn_id
return -1
}
gdb_expect 360 {
-re "\[\r\n\]$gdb_prompt $" {
verbose "GDB initialized."
}
-re "$gdb_prompt $" {
perror "GDB never initialized."
unset gdb_spawn_id
return -1
}
timeout {
perror "(timeout) GDB never initialized after 10 seconds."
remote_close host
unset gdb_spawn_id
return -1
}
}
@ -4752,6 +4743,11 @@ proc gdb_init { test_file_name } {
# tests.
setenv TERM "dumb"
# Initialize GDB's pty with a fixed size, to make sure we avoid pagination
# during startup. See "man expect" for details about stty_init.
global stty_init
set stty_init "rows 25 cols 80"
# Some tests (for example gdb.base/maint.exp) shell out from gdb to use
# grep. Clear GREP_OPTIONS to make the behavior predictable,
# especially having color output turned on can cause tests to fail.