Avoid readline conflicts in pexpect

In some cases, sensitive to readline version and the user's
environment, gdb might emit escape codes while run under python's
pexpect (i.e. testing pretty printers).  This patch, suggested
by Jan, helps isolate the test from the user's environment.

Tested on RHEL 7 x86_64 with DTS 7 and EPEL, which is one
magic combination of components that triggers this bug.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d9852ab..d3560ad 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-02-14  Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+
+       * scripts/test_printers_common.py: Set TERM to a known harmless
+       value.
+
 2019-02-14  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
        * sunrpc/xdr.c (xdr_int): Add fall-through comment.

diff --git a/scripts/test_printers_common.py b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
index dada6aa..b2bd4ba 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/test_printers_common.py
+++ b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ TIMEOUTFACTOR = os.environ.get('TIMEOUTFACTOR')
 if TIMEOUTFACTOR:
     timeout = int(TIMEOUTFACTOR)
 
+# Otherwise GDB is run in interactive mode and readline may send escape
+# sequences confusing output for pexpect.
+os.environ["TERM"]="dumb"
+
 try:
     # Check the gdb version.
     version_cmd = '{0} --version'.format(gdb_invocation, timeout=timeout)