From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15239 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2004 01:18:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15232 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 01:18:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO capitol.mail.pas.earthlink.net) (207.217.120.180) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 01:18:20 -0000 Received: from ip216-26-76-134.dsl.du.teleport.com ([216.26.76.134] helo=grayscale.canids) by capitol.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BoXed-0004li-00; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:18:19 -0700 Received: from grayscale.canids (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grayscale.canids (Postfix) with ESMTP id A393A1317A; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:18:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Felix Lee To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Chastain) Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [proposal/testsuite] require build == host References: <20040725000344.F322F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> In-Reply-To: <20040725000344.F322F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> on Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:03:44 EDT from mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Chastain) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:52:00 -0000 Message-Id: <20040725011817.A393A1317A@grayscale.canids> X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00308.txt.bz2 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. --