2004-01-14 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>

* gdb.base/sepdebug.exp: Bail out of the test if we don't know
	what debug info we have. Print a better message if something goes
	wrong while producing the separate debug info file.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-01-14  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@redhat.com>
+
+	* gdb.base/sepdebug.exp: Bail out of the test if we don't know
+	what debug info we have. Print a better message if something goes
+	wrong while producing the separate debug info file.
+
 2004-01-14  Michael Chastain  <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
 
 	* gdb.base/callfuncs.c: Remove explicit declaration of malloc.

gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/sepdebug.exp

@@ -72,17 +72,22 @@ if { [test_debug_format "stabs"] } then {
     # (see dejagnu/lib/framework.exp)
     unsupported "no separate debug info handling with stabs"
     return -1
+} elseif { [test_debug_format "unknown"] } then {
+    # gdb doesn't know what the debug format is. We are out of luck here. 
+    unsupported "unknown debugging format"
+    return -1
 }
 gdb_exit
 
 # Note: the procedure gdb_gnu_strip_debug will produce an executable called
 # ${binfile}, which is just like the executable ($binfile) but without
 # the debuginfo. Instead $binfile has a .gnudebuglink section which contains
-# the name of a idebuginfo only file. This file will be stored in the
+# the name of a debuginfo only file. This file will be stored in the
 # gdb.base/.debug subdirectory.
 
 if [gdb_gnu_strip_debug $binfile] {
-    unsupported "no separate debug info handling"
+    # check that you have a recent version of strip and objcopy installed
+    unsupported "cannot produce separate debug info files"
     return -1
 }