From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9847 invoked by alias); 20 May 2003 21:16:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 7378 invoked from network); 20 May 2003 21:15:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO igw2.watson.ibm.com) (129.34.20.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 May 2003 21:15:59 -0000 Received: from sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com [9.2.112.57]) by igw2.watson.ibm.com (8.11.7/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h4KLFwh162464; Tue, 20 May 2003 17:15:58 -0400 Received: from makai.watson.ibm.com (makai.watson.ibm.com [9.2.216.144] (may be forged)) by sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (AIX5.1/8.11.0/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h4KLFw8439970; Tue, 20 May 2003 17:15:58 -0400 Received: from watson.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by makai.watson.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3/09-18-2002) with ESMTP id RAA30208; Tue, 20 May 2003 17:15:56 -0400 Message-Id: <200305202115.RAA30208@makai.watson.ibm.com> To: Janis Johnson cc: Stephen Biggs , GCC list Subject: Re: Testsuite custom environment In-Reply-To: Message from Janis Johnson of "Tue, 20 May 2003 13:47:30 PDT." <20030520134729.A26353@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 21:38:00 -0000 From: David Edelsohn X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01907.txt.bz2 >>>>> Janis Johnson writes: Janis> I've tried lots of different ways to get a variable passed through to Janis> the testing tools and haven't yet figured out how to do it. For the Janis> binary compatibility tests I gave up and had the Makefile write Janis> particular variables to site.exp; ugly, but it did what I needed. If Janis> there's a better way to do this, I'd like to know about it, too, and Janis> then we can fix the documentation. Are --tool_opts and RUNTESTFLAGS="" useful? --tool_opts can specify additional options that always are applied to the commandline when invoking the tool, but not overriding existing flags. RUNTESTFLAGS can specify those options in an environment variable, e.g., when running from "make check". David