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Re: [PING 2][PATCH v3] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types


On 02/05/2016 11:28 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 
>> - Create a test script that is run as a test.
> 
> Note that right now we don't have any test scripts that run on the glibc 
> host, they all run on the build system.  Thus, the makefile variables 
> describing how to run programs for the glibc host, test-wrapper, 
> test-wrapper-env and test-wrapper-env-only, all expect to be running a 
> binary.

Good point.
 
> The effect is that a new variable or variables needs adding.  It might 
> default to using existing variables, and that might be right when 
> cross-testing via ssh - but people cross-testing using an emulator to run 
> binaries (the same situation for which the default setting of 
> test-wrapper-env may not work) might need to do something different.

When you say emulator I expect you mean something like a qemu userspace
emualtor that runs only the cross-platform binary without starting a full
system simulator?

I think we need to reject the notion that glibc testing is going to be
runnable on a userspace emulator. There is more testing that
I'd like to do which is going to require chroot or containers, and
therefore unusable without an ssh-like bridge to a complete target
system.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Carlos.


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