Re: testcase for "absolute source" patch

[Michael Chastain <mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com>]

Hi Barjuan,

I have to defer this test script for a while.

The problem is default_target_compile in dejagnu.
default_target_compile really wants to be in charge of downloading files
from build to host and managing the filenames on the host.  This
directly conflicts with your script, which wants to manage the names
on the host.

default_target_compile has at least two other problems.  First, it needs
to support tester-specified compilers for arbitrary languages.  Second,
it has an annoying habit of printing any compiler messages two or
three times.

I don't have time to work on default_target_compile right now.  And it
will be hard because it's part of dejagnu, an external package.
I might end up actually copying the 300 lines of default_target_compile
into gdb_compile and then working on it from there.

But I can't start a task to do that much infrastructure work right now.

Sorry,

Michael