Re: Using a compiler for testsuite that's not GCC?

[Timothy Wall <twall@oculustech.com>]

Well, since my cross compiler uses just about none of the "standard" options, I think I'm going to have to hack away and integrate later...

T.


Stan Shebs wrote:

> Timothy Wall wrote:
> >
> > What's the best way to go about this?  It seems a lot of the tests assume gcc and so throw gcc-specific options at the compiler.  It seems the approach with least effort would be to point dejagnu at a wrapper which translates gcc options into ones the other compiler understands...
>
> Testsuite should be able to work with any compiler, athough in
> practice GCCisms sneak in from to time.  Note however that there
> is an implicit expectation that the compiler accepts a basic list
> of options common to Unix compilers, such as -g, -o, etc.  -l
> would be in that category, though not necessarily the list of
> libraries, and maybe -w, not sure about that.
>
> If you wanted to generalize the testsuite though, that would be
> a good thing.
>
> Stan