From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13632 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2004 09:48:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13619 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2004 09:48:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maynard.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.243) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 19 Aug 2004 09:48:14 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BxjWn-0001vL-00; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 05:48:14 -0400 Received: from mindspring.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id EF14B4B102; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 05:48:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:48:00 -0000 From: Michael Chastain To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, eliz@gnu.org Subject: [rfa/doco] Test Suite: build != host Message-ID: <4124776A.nailCD81LG97@mindspring.com> User-Agent: nail 10.8 6/28/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00581.txt.bz2 This patch documents that the gdb test suite is supported with build != host, but that some test scripts do not work and will return UNRESOLVED if build != host. I don't know if "UNRESOLVED" needs some kind of @foo{...} markup. Testing: rebuilt gdb doco, it looked okay. Okay to commit? Michael === 2004-08-19 Michael Chastain * (Using the Testsuite): build != host is supported, but some test scripts do not support build != host. Index: gdbint.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.219 diff -c -3 -p -r1.219 gdbint.texinfo *** gdbint.texinfo 14 Aug 2004 21:11:43 -0000 1.219 --- gdbint.texinfo 19 Aug 2004 08:59:19 -0000 *************** difficult to test, such as code that han *** 6279,6284 **** --- 6279,6289 ---- in particular versions of compilers, and it's OK not to try to write tests for all of those. + DejaGNU supports separate build, host, and target machines. However, + some @value{GDBN} test scripts do not work if the host machine is + separate from the build machine. These scripts will return an + UNRESOLVED result in such an environment. + @section Testsuite Organization @cindex test suite organization