Re: [patch, testsuite] Disable dw2-dir-file-name.exp on remote and/or Windows host

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 2019-08-13 6:29 p.m., Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> This is yet another testsuite fix to clean up results on remote Windows 
> host.
> 
> For this testcase, I did consider trying to fix it rather than just 
> disabling it for remote host, but it looked like it was going to be an 
> awful lot of work and trial-and-error (it has almost no comments to 
> explain what it is trying to test, or how it is getting there).  I think 
> it is at least an incremental improvement to document that it isn't 
> expected to work as-is on remote host.  And disabling it does get rid of 
> 33 completely bogus FAILs.  :-P
> 
> OK?
> 
> -Sandra
> 

> +# This test has hard-wired assumptions that host and build filenames are
> +# the same, and assumes POSIX pathname syntax.
> +if { [is_remote host] || [ishost *-*-mingw*] } {
> +    return 0
> +}
> +

Should we use "untested" or "unsupported" before returning, to have at least a status
in the logs?  The definition of "unsupported" seems appropriate for this case:

    Declares that a test case depends on some facility that does not exist in the
    testing environment.

From: https://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/manual/unsupported-procedure.html

Simon