Re: [PATCH] testsuite: Also exclude `*-*-kfreebsd*-gnu' from STB_GNU_UNIQUE tests

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:04:13 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.binutils
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 21 Jul 2026, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >  See bfd/config.bfd for how the targets are referred there; we obviously 
> > need to stay consistent, because `foo-kfreebsd-bar' will choose different 
> > BFD vectors (whether it makes sense or not, but that's not the matter of 
> > this fix).
> 
> Afaict `foo-kfreebsd-bar' will simply not match anything, hitting the
> "BFD does not support target" case. Therefore I don't see it as wrong to
> have a wider match here than what bfd/config.bfd has. Yet no, I'm not
> going to insist.

 I think there's value in having triplet match patterns consistent where 
appropriate, as it makes tree-wide changes easier, in particular to avoid 
discrepancies between components.  I've seen too many of them recently.

 Change committed now, thank you for your review.

  Maciej