From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B97853858016 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:41:08 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org B97853858016 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.crashing.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=kernel.crashing.org Received: from gate.crashing.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id 28SFe1s2009498; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:40:01 -0500 Received: (from segher@localhost) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id 28SFe0on009497; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:40:00 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: gate.crashing.org: segher set sender to segher@kernel.crashing.org using -f Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:39:59 -0500 From: Segher Boessenkool To: Jonathan Wakely Cc: Thomas Schwinge , Tom de Vries , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: DejaGnu: flags via 'RUNTESTFLAGS' overriding those specified in test cases Message-ID: <20220928153959.GT25951@gate.crashing.org> References: <87r18jt7uu.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net> <871qrvlibb.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 03:12:23PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > Which version of Dejagnu are you using? There was a fix in 6.1 or 6.2 > to change the order that the RUNTESTFLAGS and dg-options get added to > the command line. > > It's a pain to make the testsuite work consistently for both old and > new versions. I would be very happy if we just said you need a modern > version of Dejagnu, and relied on the semantics in the newer versions. Unfortunately there quite often are bugs in newer versions of DejaGnu as well, making it impossible to require very new versions of it. Segher