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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: testsuite layout conventions
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 21:19:25 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210106104925.GI13873@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im8aa2i3.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:33:24AM +0100, 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.

Yes, we use that in binutils, gas and ld.  I once tried to flatten out
the gas testsuite heirarchy, removing --tool from the runtest
invocation.  That ran into trouble with gas-dg.exp I think it was,
with -dg-test being called instead of gas-dg-test.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-06 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06  5:12 Mike Frysinger
2021-01-06  8:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-06 10:09   ` Mike Frysinger
2021-01-06 10:49   ` Alan Modra [this message]

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