On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > 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.
Thank you for your comments. No C regressions on x86_64-darwin after full bootstrap. Now committed. Tristan.
