From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8790 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2005 10:44:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7625 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2005 10:43:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 10:43:49 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j11Ahm2T025034 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 05:43:48 -0500 Received: from pobox.surrey.redhat.com (pobox.surrey.redhat.com [172.16.10.17]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j11AhmO24488; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 05:43:48 -0500 Received: from [172.31.0.98] (vpnuser6.surrey.redhat.com [172.16.9.6]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j11AhlS9024211; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:43:47 GMT Message-ID: <41FF5F9C.5040107@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:44:00 -0000 From: Nick Clifton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jitendra@linsyssoft.com CC: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Running gas and ld test suites remotely. References: <1107241354.3619.14.camel@ind.linsyssoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1107241354.3619.14.camel@ind.linsyssoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-02/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 Hi Jitendra, > I am using powerpc as machine and my host machine is x86. Have you considered using a powerpc simulator running on the x86 host as an alternative test environment ? This definitely works. > I want to use ssh for session > protocol and scp for transfer protocol. I have successfully run binutils > test suite remotely but gas and ld test suites runs only on host for the > similar configurations as binutils. Do you mean that the GAS executable you have runs on the x86 host and produces ppc object files, or that it runs on the remote powerpc machine and produces native object files ? In the former case there really is no advantage to taking the created object file, downloading it to the test machine, then uploading it back to the host so that objdump can be run on it. ie - the GAS testsuite does not check to see if *working* executables can be created. All it does is check to see if assembler source files will assemble to certain expected binary patterns. There is no need for an execution environment for the GAS testsuite - nothing is ever executed. Cheers Nick