From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17774 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2004 01:52:47 -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 17759 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 01:52:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 01:52:46 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1BoYAt-0003tG-OR; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:51:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:43:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Felix Lee Cc: Michael Chastain , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [proposal/testsuite] require build == host Message-ID: <20040725015139.GA14898@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Felix Lee , Michael Chastain , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20040725000344.F322F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <20040725011817.A393A1317A@grayscale.canids> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040725011817.A393A1317A@grayscale.canids> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:18:16PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote: > 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. Have you ever actually needed to do this? When I tested GDB on embedded Linux devices, expect was not the issue. Expect is easy if you have enough RAM footprint to fit a GDB binary! Also, what is a host on which GDB works but expect does not? -- Daniel Jacobowitz