bug#44712: closed (Inconsistent directory lookup of executable in dejagnu.exp/host_execute)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Inconsistent directory lookup of executable in dejagnu.exp/host_execute Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:15:25 -0500

If you call ‘host_execute /fullpath/testsuite/unit-test/unit’, host_execute can find the unit test but not execute it.

If you call ‘host_execute /testsuite/unit-test/unit’, host_execute can’t find the unit test (but could execute it).

If you call ‘host_execute testsuite/unit-test/unit’, host_execute works.

This is because the lookup of the executable is done using:

if {![file exists ${executable}]} 

And the executing is done using:

spawn -noecho "./$executable" ${params}

Please make the usage of $executable consistent and document how host_execute should be called.

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> Robert Menteer via Bug-dejagnu via wrote:
> > This is because the lookup of the executable is done using:
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> > if {![file exists ${executable}]} 
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> > And the executing is done using:
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> > spawn -noecho "*_./_*$executable" ${params}
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> > Please make the usage of $executable consistent and document how 
> > host_execute should be called.
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> The code you are complaining about was fixed in commit 
> 89f58b27832f8fc7b443988d02e56cfaba12eb5a as part of support for 
> regression testing for bug#42399 and documentation for host_execute was 
> added in the node "Running unit tests" in commit 
> aa173cea24b94d3f714f07bbbfda85740e8e77db.  These will be in 1.6.3.
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> Closing report as already fixed; not in current master.
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> -- Jacob
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