[DTrace-devel] [PATCH 1/3] test: tst.nested-unnamed-structs.d needs to be xfail pending binutils patch

[Nick Alcock]

On 26 May 2023, Eugene Loh via DTrace-devel uttered the following:

> On 5/26/23 15:32, Nick Alcock wrote:
>
>> On 26 May 2023, Eugene Loh via DTrace-devel outgrape:
>>> On 5/26/23 12:08, Nick Alcock via DTrace-devel wrote:
>>>> On 26 May 2023, Kris Van Hees via DTrace-devel said:
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>
>>>>
>>>> (the patch is upstream and has been backported as far as binutils 2.40,
>>>> but we can't rely on its being present yet.)
>>> So someone could have 2.40 and see this xpass?  Does that mean that what this test really needs is a modification to its .x file
>>> instead of an outright xfail?
>> I suppose so -- but what would the .x file test?
>
> binutils version number?

That would work once the next release happens, I suppose -- but it won't
work for any distro release (like ours) because they might backport it.
(I suppose we could add knowledge of the OL binutils package version
number too, ew.)

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