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Re: [RFA] Generalizing compiler invocation for FORTRAN95 testsuite
- From: Petr Sorfa <petrs at caldera dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:19:32 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Generalizing compiler invocation for FORTRAN95 testsuite
- Organization: Caldera
- References: <200205090319.g493JMC19527@duracef.shout.net>
Hi Michael,
Sounds good.
Should I keep my current compiler support in the F95 testsuite or change
it temporarily until your work becomes available?
Petr
> Okay, progress report.
>
> I'm playing around with some new code in gdb_compile() to set the compiler
> name. It looks in the arguments to see if there is a language argument
> such as "c++" or "fortran-90". If there is a language argument, that's
> the language to use. If there is no language argument, the default
> language is C.
>
> Next there is a section that translates the language argument to a compiler
> to use. That's where the default compilers are gcc, g77, gjc, and so on.
> The user can override these with environment variables CC_FOR_TARGET,
> F77_FOR_TARGET, JAVA_FOR_TARGET, and so on. This will enable people to
> test with different C compilers and different C++ compilers and
> different FORTRAN compilers.
>
> After gdb_compile() figures out the name of the compiler, it always
> passes a "compiler=..." argument to target_compile.
>
> Along the way, I ripped out a lot of weird lib/java.exp support code to
> figure out the name of the Java compiler.
>
> I'm still playing with this. Among other things, I have to fix my own
> Java testbed problems first so that I can run Java tests.
>
> When it reaches a submission stage I'll be happy to have it stomped on
> and ripped up; I'm not assuming that anyone will like it.
>
> Michael C