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Re: [PATCH]: testsuite tweak for Sparclet


Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> Fernando Nasser wrote in message <39085D32.7D551EC5@cygnus.com>...
> >msnyder@cygnus.com wrote:
> >>
> >> The sparclet remote stub does not support stdio, so these tests,
> >> which depend on parsing the output of the program, will never run.
> >> There are probably others with the same problem -- these are just
> >> the ones I happened to catch.
> >>
> >
> >Michael, do you know if Sparclet is the only case where stdio is not
> supported?
> 
> I'm fairly sure it is not the only case.  Older ports especially would be
> suspect.
> 
> > If there are other
> >platforms we can make a genric tests instead.
> 
> I'm sure we can, but I don't have time right now...
> Seems like it would be fairly icky anyway.  Would you download a
> "hello world" program just to see if the output appeared?  That would
> sure slow down the testsuite...

I don't think it would work anyway :-)  It would most likely give a
false negative.  printf never works when porting to a new target target
:-)

It would have to be a dejagnu confure option.

	enjoy,
		Andrew

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