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

[Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>]

Hi Thomas,

On 9/15/25 13:18, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 15/09/2025 18.13, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Hmm I was getting:
>>
>>    2025-09-15 17:10:50,798 - INFO: GDB CMD: /home/alex/src/tools/binutils-gdb.git/builds/all/install/bin/gdb -q -n -batch -ex 'set pagination off' -ex 'set confirm off' -ex "py sys.argv=['/home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py']" -x /home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py
>>    2025-09-15 17:10:50,803 - DEBUG: Using cached asset /home/alex/.cache/qemu/download/7e1430b81c26bdd0da025eeb8fbd77b5dc961da4364af26e771bd39f379cbbf7 for https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/29/Everything/aarch64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
>>    2025-09-15 17:10:50,891 - INFO: gdb output:
>>     Python Exception <class 'ModuleNotFoundError'>: No module named 'pycotap'
>>    Error occurred in Python: No module named 'pycotap'
> 
> Ah, sorry, I have it installed pycotap system-wide, too, so I did not notice it... I'll fix it in the next version if we decide to proceed with this approach instead of using one of the others.

See my comment in patch 1/2 about adding python_site_packages to
PYTHONPATH to fix it. I think there is no harm to the other tests
by adding it to the test_env, so I don't think it's worth taking
care of it only in reverse_debugging.py.


Cheers,
Gustavo