From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14276 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2004 18:43:51 -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 14267 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 18:43:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO barry.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.25) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 Aug 2004 18:43:50 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1ByEMf-0008Pl-00; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:43:49 -0400 Received: from mindspring.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 54C364B102; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:44:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:43:00 -0000 From: Michael Chastain To: eliz@gnu.org Subject: [patch/doco] test suite, build != host, version 2 Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <4126467C.nailG8P11SFWE@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/msg00599.txt.bz2 Version #2. Testing: rebuilt gdb doco, it looked okay. Okay to commit? === 2004-08-20 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 20 Aug 2004 18:24:40 -0000 *************** difficult to test, such as code that han *** 6279,6284 **** --- 6279,6293 ---- 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 build machine and + the host machine are not the same. In such an environment, these scripts + will give a result of ``UNRESOLVED'', like this: + + @smallexample + UNRESOLVED: gdb.base/example.exp: This test script does not work on a remote host. + @end smallexample + @section Testsuite Organization @cindex test suite organization