This is a follow-up of:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-08/msg00347.html
Instead of going throttle and always enabling our selftests (even in
non-development builds), this patch is a bit more conservative and
introduces a configure option ("--enable-unit-tests") that allows the
user to choose whether she wants unit tests in the build or not. Note
that the current behaviour is retained: if no option is provided, GDB
will have selftests included in a development build, and will *not*
have selftests included in a non-development build.
The rationale for having this option is still the same: due to the
many racy testcases and random failures we see when running the GDB
testsuite, it is unfortunately not possible to perform a full test
when one is building a downstream package. As the Fedora GDB
maintainer and one of the Debian GDB uploaders, I feel like this
situation could be improved by, at least, executing our selftests
after the package has been built.
This patch introduces no regressions to our build.
OK?
gdb/ChangeLog:
2018-10-10 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
* README (`configure' options): Add documentation for new
"--enable-unit-tests" option.
* acinclude.m4: Include "selftest.m4".
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Use "GDB_AC_SELFTEST".
* maint.c (maintenance_selftest): Update message informing
that selftests have been disabled.
(maintenance_info_selftests): Likewise.
* selftest.m4: New file.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2018-10-10 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
* acinclude.m4: Include "../selftest.m4".
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Use "GDB_AC_SELFTEST".
* configure.srv: Use "$enable_unittests" instead of
"$development" when checking whether unit tests have been
enabled.
* server.c (captured_main): Update message informing that
selftests have been disabled.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2018-10-10 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
* gdb.gdb/unittest.exp: Update expected message informing that
selftests have been disabled.
* gdb.server/unittest.exp: Likewise.
squash! Add parameter to allow enabling/disabling selftests via configure
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