Re: Recent simulator patches broke many sims

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday 24 March 2013 19:23:28 Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>
> > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:45:27 +0100
> > 
> > This came in after I was done email last night. My test
> > run finished overnight with no horribly bad issues. I have no idea
> > what the make check results should be though and they could be
> > because I simply ran "make check" with no board specified and
> > no gcc for the target installed.
> 
> This would be no news to *you*, but for the record:
> 
> You need a board (make check RUNTESTFLAGS=--target_board=$board
> with e.g. board=cris-sim).  All boards are in "recent"
> dejagnu-1.5 IIRC and most in ancient dejagnu-1.4.4.  You need
> installed binutils (e.g. in some temp location added to PATH for
> the duration of the test-run) for each sim configuration as
> mentioned.  I don't run with target gcc; not needed for the
> level of smoke test I'm after and I guess not for this change
> either.

that's not entirely true.  many (all but cris?) sims run & pass just fine 
without needing to explicitly pass magic flags.  i know the Blackfin and frv 
sims can build & run pretty much all their tests w/out requiring board flags.

imo, requiring manual board selection like this is archaic for no good reason.  
i never test sims with specific flags, nor do i plan on starting.  `make check-
sim` is my limit of testing.
-mike

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