Re: segfault during test

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Aug-2012, Rik wrote:

| It looks like all the easy channels for debug are closed. 
| 
| I would start by configuring a debug build of Octave with CFLAGS '-g -O0'. 
| When you have that built, run it under gdb with './run-octave -g'.
| This will put you at the gdb prompt.  Type 'run' to start Octave.
| When Octave has started, type 'cd test' and then 'fntests'
| This will start the integrated test suite usually run by 'make check'.  If
| you have separate build and src directories you will need to cd to the
| actual location of fntests.m to run it.

Maybe we should make something like the following change?  Then we
could simplify these instructions to

  run "make check RUN_OCTAVE_FLAGS=-g", then at the (gdb) prompt type "r"

jwe


diff --git a/test/Makefile.am b/test/Makefile.am
--- a/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/test/Makefile.am
@@ -58,8 +58,11 @@
 include fcn-handle-derived-resolution/module.mk
 include nest/module.mk
 
+RUN_OCTAVE := $(top_builddir)/run-octave
+RUN_OCTAVE_FLAGS := --norc --silent --no-history 
+
 check: test_sparse.m test_bc_overloads.m
-       $(top_builddir)/run-octave --norc --silent --no-history 
$(srcdir)/fntests.m $(srcdir)
+       $(RUN_OCTAVE) $(RUN_OCTAVE_FLAGS) $(srcdir)/fntests.m $(srcdir)
 
 test_sparse.m: build_sparse_tests.sh
        $(srcdir)/build_sparse_tests.sh