On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Tristan Gingold wrote: > Argh, that's an issue. We don't run the gcc test suite natively on VMS > because there is no port of Dejagnu (if ever doable) to VMS. We haven't tried > to test a cross-compiler (and running the executable on the VMS host) because > an early attempt for another test suite pointed out slowness and reliability > issues. VMS machines could be considered as slow from today's standard POV. > I haven't found a method to run only the compile tests and skip the executing > one. > Is it possible to do that with the gcc test suite ? That's would be very > useful to test cross compilers.
Thanks for the explanation. I advise solving the unreliability issues for cross-testing to VMS (and living with the slowness), so that you can run the testsuite, but the patch is OK as-is. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
