Re: Setting environment variables when doing remove execution

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the following is motivated by GCC testsuite – which uses 
> 'dg-set-target-env-var' to set per-test-case environment variables 
> (used with the address-sanitizer (ASAN) and in the testsuite for 
> OpenMP/OpenACC (libgomp)). [The latter also uses 'setenv' for 
> offloading for all runs per offloading target.] – GCC uses 'setenv' 
> for this purpose, which works well if host = target (= ![is_remote…]) 
> – but when doing remote execution, it does not work.
>
> The question is how to best support setting the environment variable 
> remote. I could imagine to either pass environment variables alongside 
> when running remote_spawn/remote_exec or to have a remove_setenv.
>
> Thoughts?

As an interim measure, could you simply prepend the needed environment 
variables to the remote command and/or use env(1)?


-- Jacob