From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11183 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2004 15:14:31 -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 11167 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 15:14:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 15:14:30 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6RFEUe3022791 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:14:30 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6RFEOa05429; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:14:29 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075F72B9D; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:14:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4106714C.2070805@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:32:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Chastain Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [proposal/testsuite] require build == host References: <20040725000344.F322F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <41057B87.6070005@gnu.org> <4105A74A.nailMK731NF71@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <4105A74A.nailMK731NF71@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00346.txt.bz2 > ac> What do the dejagnu maintainers have to say about the feature? > > I haven't asked, but it's a supported feature of dejagnu and I'm > willing to accept that they will keep on supporting it. It would be useful, just so that we know where they are going. > Dan Kegel is at least one user of dejagnu who uses build != host > with gcc. He wrote a whole section in his cross-gcc faq about it. > People are testing gcc with dejagnu using build != host, > so it would be good if gdb testing worked in the same environment. > > ac> As for a system that would/should use this - djgpp. > > You got me there. It's been a while since I used windows, > but I suspect that windows has telnet/ftp servers. > > Eli, is it possible to ftp into a windows box and upload and > download files? More important, is it possible to telnet into > a windows box and run a command-line interpreter? This is how the original cygwin testing was done - at a dos prompt. > It looks like I should go with Plan B: file PR's against the > test scripts that don't work on build != host, and eventually > fix them. For the moment, lets stick with the status quo. Tests are required to work host==build. Having a test work host!=build is an added bonus, but not a requrement. We can hardly enforce host!=build when there's no way to test it and the return on investment is marginal. Andrew