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Re: make tests process failures using cross-test-ssh


On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 18:28 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 
> > I would like to change this so that the touch is also done on the target
> > machine but I am not sure what macros I should use to in order to have
> > cross-test-ssh.sh run touch.
> 
> In general you should not assume it's possible to run arbitrary commands 
> on the system running the newly built glibc; remember, the test wrapper 
> could be an emulator such as userspace QEMU.  By design, the testsuite 
> runs as little as possible on the system running the newly built glibc: 
> only programs newly built and linked against it (possibly via "env", but 
> that's just a default definition).

Have you (or anyone else) used userspace qemu to do glibc testing?  Is
there a script like cross-test-ssh.sh to plug in as the test-wrapper?
I already use qemu for GCC testing so that would be a good way for me to
test if I can get it to work.

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@imgtec.com




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