Re: Changing the C/C++ compiler for gdb testsuite runs

Michael Snyder
2002-01-11T01:30:18Z

Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
> I'm not a dejagnu expert, so the answer to this may be obvious.
>
> Is there a way of forcing the GDB testsuite to use a particular compiler
> that hasn't yet been installed (I have a gcc-3 compiler from a build tree
> that I'd like to use to run the tests, but I don't particularly want to
> have to install it first). I've tried running
>
> make check
>
> with both CC_FOR_TARGET and CC set to point to the compiler, but neither
> seems to work. There doesn't appear to be anything on this in the gdb
> internals manual either.

If you build both gcc and gdb in the same build tree,
the tests will use the gcc from the build tree.