Re: [proposal/testsuite] require build == host

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:18:16PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote:
> mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Chastain):
> > I don't think anyone actually uses a configuration with separate build
> > and host.  So I propose this patch to document that the gdb test suite
> > requires that build and host be the same machine.
> 
> hm.  gdb runs on more systems than expect does, and my feeling at
> the moment is that it's sometimes easier to do build!=host
> testing than it is to get expect running, like on weird embedded
> linux devices.
> 
> not that I particularly like the testsuite complications added by
> build!=host, but I don't know a better alternative yet.

Have you ever actually needed to do this?

When I tested GDB on embedded Linux devices, expect was not the issue. 
Expect is easy if you have enough RAM footprint to fit a GDB binary!

Also, what is a host on which GDB works but expect does not?

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Daniel Jacobowitz