[RFC PATCH 0/2] tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado (yet another try)

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

Here's yet another attempt to remove the avocado dependency from the
reverse debugging tests: I basically took Gustavo's patches to rework
tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py, but instead of calling that
through tests/guest-debug/run-test.py and adding the cumbersome code
to support additional test execution logic, I kept our normal way of
running tests via pycotap. Instead, the essential logic for running
gdb is copied from tests/guest-debug/run-test.py into the new function
reverse_debug() that then runs gdb directly with using
tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py as the script.

Marked as an RFC since this still needs some love... The aarch64 test
seems to work already (after applying the fix for the reverse debug there
first: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20250603125459.17688-1-1844144@gmail.com/ ),
but the ppc64 and x86 tests are currently still completely broken.
Also we currently log into two different folders this way, into
tests/functional/aarch64/test_reverse_debug.ReverseDebugging_AArch64.test_aarch64_virt
for the normal outer test, and into
tests/functional/aarch64/reverse_debugging.ReverseDebugging.test_reverse_debugging
for the script that is run in gdb ... it's likely ok for the aarch64
test, but the ppc64 test contains two subtests, so we need to come up
with a better solution here for the final implementation.

Gustavo Romero (2):
  tests/functional: Provide GDB to the functional tests
  tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado

 configure                                     |   2 +
 meson.build                                   |   4 +
 meson_options.txt                             |   2 +
 scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh                 |   2 +
 .../functional/aarch64/test_reverse_debug.py  |  16 +-
 tests/functional/meson.build                  |   7 +
 tests/functional/ppc64/test_reverse_debug.py  |  18 +-
 tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py         | 235 +++++++++++-------
 tests/functional/x86_64/test_reverse_debug.py |  20 +-
 9 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)

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