Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado

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

Hi Thomas,

On 10/2/25 14:52, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 02/10/2025 18.53, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 02/10/2025 04.04, Gustavo Romero wrote:
>>> The goal of this series is to remove Avocado as a dependency for running
>>> the reverse_debugging functional test.
>>>
>>> After several rounds of discussions about v1 and v2, and experiments
>>> done by Daniel and Thomas (thanks for all the experiments and comments
>>> so far), I've taken a new approach and moved away from using a runner
>>> for GDB. The changes, I believe, are much simpler now.
>>
>>   Hi Gustavo,
>>
>> unfortunately, this still seems to be broken on Fedora. After applying your series, I get:
>>
>> stderr:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/home/thuth/devel/qemu/tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py", line 100, in reverse_debugging
>>      self.reverse_debugging_run(vm, port, gdb_arch, last_icount)
>>      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>    File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/unittest/case.py", line 156, in skip_wrapper
>>      raise SkipTest(reason)
>> unittest.case.SkipTest: Missing env var(s): QEMU_TEST_GDB
> 
> Looks like it's required to explicitly use the --gdb=... parameter of configure to make it work, and it does not work without that paramter? Could you please have a look whether it works without --gdb with the auto-detected gdb for you?

Yes, it works without passing --gdb on Ubuntu. I'm checking it on Fedora.

But at least have you got the test skipped properly (displayed on Meson as skipped) since QEMU_TEST_GDB is missing?


Cheers,
Gustavo