[PATCH 2/2] [gdb/testsuite] Fix gdb.python/py-section-script.exp with older objdump

Tom de Vries <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:00:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On AlmaLinux 9.8 ppc64le with objdump 2.35.2 I run into:
...
ERROR: tcl error sourcing gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-section-script.exp.
ERROR: tcl error code CHILDSTATUS 3614626 1
ERROR: objdump: unrecognized option '--decompress'
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Fix this by using remote_exec instead of exec, and checking the result.

Tested on x86_64-linux and ppc64le-linux.
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 .../gdb.python/py-section-script.exp          | 21 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-section-script.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-section-script.exp
index 04ff14a8d0a..6a83ff31602 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-section-script.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-section-script.exp
@@ -65,9 +65,24 @@ foreach_with_prefix variant {plain compressed} {
 
     if {$variant == "compressed"} {
 	set objdump_program [gdb_find_objdump]
-	set debug_sect [exec $objdump_program -j .debug_gdb_scripts -s "$the_binfile"]
-	set debug_sect_decompressed [exec $objdump_program -j .debug_gdb_scripts \
-			    -s "$the_binfile" --decompress]
+
+	set res \
+	    [remote_exec host \
+		 "$objdump_program -j .debug_gdb_scripts -s \"$the_binfile\""]
+	if {[lindex $res 0] != 0} {
+	    unsupported "Couldn't run objdump"
+	    return
+	}
+	set debug_sect [lindex $res 1]
+
+	set res \
+	    [remote_exec host \
+		 "$objdump_program -j .debug_gdb_scripts -s \"$the_binfile\" --decompress"]
+	if {[lindex $res 0] != 0} {
+	    unsupported "Couldn't run objdump --decompress"
+	    return
+	}
+	set debug_sect_decompressed [lindex $res 1]
 
 	if {$debug_sect == $debug_sect_decompressed} {
 	    fail ".debug_gdb_scripts in $the_binfile is not compressed"
-- 
2.51.0