Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH 2/3] Running Wget through gdb in the tests

[Ander Juaristi]

On 04/09/2015 11:32 AM, Ander Juaristi wrote:
> On 04/09/2015 11:26 AM, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> > Hi Ander,
> >
> > attached is a (experimental) patch that allows you to
> > $ cd tests
> > $ GDB_TESTS=1 ./Test--spider.px
> >
> > If you successfully test it, you might also add GDB_TESTS to the python test
> > suite and send a git-format patch to the list for reviewing.
> >
> > Regards, Tim
> Wow! Sounds good!
>
> I'll review it and get back to you.
As promised, here go the two patches. I haven't changed your Perl patch. I've 
tested both test suites and work perfect, altough some tests rely on Wget's 
return code to check for failures, and those tests, when run through GDB, claim 
to fail incorrectly because GDB's return code is always zero if everything went 
OK. However, it's worth noting that this feature should *only* be used during 
development, to tackle down specific bugs, etc. One could write a test case for 
certain bug and run it through GDB in order to fix it (as I do). Otherwise, a 
dedicated web server would have to be set up (e.g. Apache) and write some 
server-side CGI to test that bug, which IMO would be tedious. I'll send one 
more patch stating this fact in the documentation.

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Regards,
- AJ

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0001-Added-support-for-GDB-in-Python-tests.patch
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