[DejaGnu] WinNT/Cygwin and GDB testsuite

[Andrew Murray]

Hi,

I'm using DejaGnu 1.3.1 (from a snapshot: gdb+dejagnu-20010616.tar.gz2) with
Win32/Cygwin to run the GDB testsuite - but failing to execute even simple
tests properly. When I run echo.exp, with the command:

make -k check RUNTESTFLAGS="echo.exp"
or just
runtest echo.exp

...the test passes, but the following error message follows:

forked process couldn't set up input/output: bad file number
    while executing
"exec sh -c "exec > /dev/null 2>&1 && (kill -2 $pgid || kill -2 $pid) &&
sleep 5
 && (kill $pgid || kill $pid) && sleep 5 && (kill -9 $pgid || kill -9 $..."
    (procedure "standard_close" line 27)

I'm not sure what to make of this. The "forked process ..." is a Tcl error
message, and the procedure "standard_close" which contains the statement
"exec sh -c...", is defined in dejagnu/lib/remote.exp.

Thanks for any help

Andrew Murray
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