PATCH: Skip the test if the cross binary fails to run.
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@airs.com
Tue Oct 1 11:35:00 GMT 2002
Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
> > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:34:29 -0700
> > From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
>
> > Because it depends on if I have the cross compiler installed or
> > not. Why should it become an ERROR just because I have the cross
> > compiler?
>
> It should be an ERROR if you don't have a cross compiler, too, since
> then the test can't work at all. Certainly, if you have no compiler
> at all, it's important that the testsuite complains very loudly.
In my opinion, if you don't have a cross-compiler, it should be
UNTESTED.
The absence of a cross-compiler does not in any way indicate a problem
with either the tool or the testsuite. It indicates a test which can
not be run, and that is what UNTESTED means.
Ian
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