[Cython] Cython Debian builds - failing cygdb tests

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, mark florisson wrote:
> > Is that the expected behaviour? Or is there just something missing in the
> > build server setup, maybe something wrong with the gdb Python plugin? It
> > looks like it's doing something, though...

> IIRC, it parses the gdb version to match against gdb >= 7.2. Something
> is clearly going wrong, it needs investigation... 

FWIW

$> gdb --version
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian
...

seems to be parsed alright by  Cython/Debugger/Tests/TestLibCython.py .

> Unit testing was
> hard enough on top of dealing with a notoriously unstable Python API,
> maybe it's using 7.3 and it's backwards incompatible in some subtle
> way? 

could be could be... just in case -- tested with gdb 7.3 -- similar failures.

> Or maybe one of the workarounds for gdb bugs were broken by a bug
> fix? :) No idea really, the tests used to pass with 7.2, no code in
> the debugger changed really.

btw -- with runtests.py is there a built-in way to fall into a debugger
(pdb) upon failure/exception handling?

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