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Avoid readline conflicts in pexpect

Message ID xnlg2qcdcx.fsf@greed.delorie.com
State Committed
Commit 56a731d4ad319e473851893980e734b7ee42c1a0
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Commit Message

DJ Delorie Feb. 8, 2019, 7:02 p.m. UTC 
  In some cases, sensitive to readline version and the user's
environment, gdb might emit escape codes while run under python's
pexpect (i.e. testing pretty printers).  This patch, suggested
by Jan, helps isolate the test from the user's environment.

Tested on RHEL 7 x86_64 with DTS 7 and EPEL, which is one
magic combination of components that triggers this bug.

2019-02-08  Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

	* scripts/test_printers_common.py: Set TERM to a known harmless
	value.

Comments

Carlos O'Donell Feb. 13, 2019, 8:44 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 2/8/19 2:02 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> In some cases, sensitive to readline version and the user's
> environment, gdb might emit escape codes while run under python's
> pexpect (i.e. testing pretty printers).  This patch, suggested
> by Jan, helps isolate the test from the user's environment.
> 
> Tested on RHEL 7 x86_64 with DTS 7 and EPEL, which is one
> magic combination of components that triggers this bug.
> 
> 2019-02-08  Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* scripts/test_printers_common.py: Set TERM to a known harmless
> 	value.

OK for master.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>

> diff --git a/scripts/test_printers_common.py b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
> index dada6aadde..b2bd4ba1cc 100644
> --- a/scripts/test_printers_common.py
> +++ b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
> @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ TIMEOUTFACTOR = os.environ.get('TIMEOUTFACTOR')
>  if TIMEOUTFACTOR:
>      timeout = int(TIMEOUTFACTOR)
>  
> +# Otherwise GDB is run in interactive mode and readline may send escape
> +# sequences confusing output for pexpect.
> +os.environ["TERM"]="dumb"
> +
>  try:
>      # Check the gdb version.
>      version_cmd = '{0} --version'.format(gdb_invocation, timeout=timeout)
>
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diff --git a/scripts/test_printers_common.py b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
index dada6aadde..b2bd4ba1cc 100644
--- a/scripts/test_printers_common.py
+++ b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@  TIMEOUTFACTOR = os.environ.get('TIMEOUTFACTOR')
 if TIMEOUTFACTOR:
     timeout = int(TIMEOUTFACTOR)
 
+# Otherwise GDB is run in interactive mode and readline may send escape
+# sequences confusing output for pexpect.
+os.environ["TERM"]="dumb"
+
 try:
     # Check the gdb version.
     version_cmd = '{0} --version'.format(gdb_invocation, timeout=timeout)