Question about running "make check-gdb"

[Andrew Burgess]

* Shahab Vahedi via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> [2021-06-04 11:56:48 +0200]:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> Couple of days ago, you've pushed a refactoring commit [1] to gdb.
> I noticed after that change I am not able to run gdb tests for
> ARC targets anymore. I investigated a little bit and it seems like
> that the "target_alias" in generated "gdb/testsuite/site.exp" is
> not recognized correctly:
> 
> ------ After the commit -------
> $ configure --target=arc-elf32 ...
> $ make
> $ make check-gdb
> $ cat gdb/testsuite/site.exp
>   ...
>   set target_alias @target_noncanonical@
>   ...
> ------ After the commit -------
> 
> ------ Before the commit -------
> $ ./configure --target=arc-elf32 ...
> $ make
> $ make check-gdb
> $ cat gdb/testsuite/site.exp
>   ...
>   set target_alias arc-elf32
>   ...
> ------ Before the commit -------
> 
> I've tried some other target combinations as well to no avail:
> 
> $ ./configure --target=arc-none-elf32
> $ ./configure --target=arc-snps-elf
> $ ...
> 
> I would much appreciate it if you could point me in the direction of
> how to fix this.

I suspect that it was the loss of ACX_NONCANONICAL_TARGET that is the
problem, this used to be present in gdb/testsuite/configure.ac, but is
not in gdb/configure.ac.

Try adding this call into gdb/configure.ac and see if that fixes it
for you.

thanks,
Andrew