Hi, I took a closer look at this test case, and I found, except that it triggers a dejagnu bug, it is also wrong. I have tested with a cross-compiler for target=sh-elf and found that the test case actually FAILs because the foo.specs uses "cppruntime" which is only referenced in gcc/config/sh/superh.h, but sh/superh.h is only included for target sh*-superh-elf, see gcc/config.gcc.
This means that it can only pass for target=sh-superh-elf. The attached patch fixes the testcase and makes it run always, so that it does no longer triggers the dejagnu bug. Boot-strapped and reg-tested on x86_64-linux-gnu, OK for trunk? Thanks Bernd.
2016-05-01 Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlin...@hotmail.de> * gcc.dg/spec-options.c: Run always and add dg-shouldfail if target is not sh*-superh-elf. Index: gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/spec-options.c =================================================================== --- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/spec-options.c (Revision 235675) +++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/spec-options.c (Arbeitskopie) @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ /* Check that -mfoo is accepted if defined in a user spec and that it is not passed on the command line. */ /* Must be processed in EXTRA_SPECS to run. */ -/* { dg-do compile } */ -/* { dg-do run { target sh*-*-* } } */ +/* { dg-do run } */ +/* { dg-shouldfail "" { ! sh*-superh-elf } } */ /* { dg-options "-B${srcdir}/gcc.dg --specs=foo.specs -tfoo" } */ extern void abort(void);