With a gdb configured to be somewhat minimal, while still supporting python:
...
$ gdb --configuration
This GDB was configured as follows:
configure --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--with-auto-load-dir=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
--with-auto-load-safe-path=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
--without-expat
--with-gdb-datadir=$install/share/gdb (relocatable)
--with-jit-reader-dir=$install/lib64/gdb (relocatable)
--without-libunwind-ia64
--without-lzma
--without-babeltrace
--without-intel-pt
--with-mpfr
--without-xxhash
--with-python=/usr
--with-python-libdir=/usr/lib
--with-debuginfod
--without-guile
--disable-source-highlight
--with-separate-debug-dir=/usr/lib/debug
--with-system-gdbinit=$devel/system-gdbinit
...
and using gcc 4.8 to build gdb (causing std::thread not to be used due to
PR28318) I ran into:
...
(gdb) PASS: gdb.gdb/python-helper.exp: start inner gdb
print 1^M
^M
Breakpoint 2, value_print () at src/gdb/valprint.c:1174^M
1174 scoped_value_mark free_values;^M
(xgdb) FAIL: gdb.gdb/python-helper.exp: hit breakpoint in inner gdb (timeout)
...
The problem is that the regexp expects "hit Breakpoint $decimal". The "hit"
part is missing.
The "hit" is printed by maybe_print_thread_hit_breakpoint, when
show_thread_that_caused_stop returns true:
...
int
show_thread_that_caused_stop (void)
{
return highest_thread_num > 1;
}
...
Apparently, that's not the case.
Fix this by removing "hit" from the regexp, making the regexp more similar to
what is used in say, continue_to_breakpoint.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
# just created.
send_inferior "print 1\n"
gdb_test_multiple "" "hit breakpoint in inner gdb" {
- -re "hit Breakpoint $decimal, value_print.*\\(xgdb\\) $" {
+ -re "Breakpoint $decimal, value_print.*\\(xgdb\\) $" {
pass $gdb_test_name
}
}