On 06 Jan 2021 09:33, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 06 2021, Mike Frysinger via Binutils wrote:
> > the odd thing is that it seems most projects don't actually set
> > tool in their site.exp.  libstdc++, gdb, and sim do.  so i guess
> > either the others ones used to, or they just adopted a similar
> > naming convention at some point because others were ?
> 
> It can also be set on the command line.  This is used by automake.

ah, thanks, i missed the projects using newer automake & DEJATOOL and
passing --tool to runtest directly rather than through site.exp.  i
had expected site.exp so people could run `runtest` manually, but i
guess that's not really a common or supported flow.  people only run
`make check` and such and never get lower.

i'm still stuck in the old Makefile.in world -- it still feels cutting
edge that binutils/gdb is using Makefile.am at all as i thought it'd
never happen ;).
-mike