Re: dg-options after board/cflags
"Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc-patches" <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:07:48 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gcc.patches,gmane.comp.sysutils.dejagnu.general |
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>> Your patch dealt with board/multilib_flags, but the same problem exists >> for board/cflags and many other flag-containing options. > > What's the use case for that? IIUC board flags are supposed to be ones > that are absolutely required for executables to run with a given board, > such as multilib selection, special linker scripts, non-standard run-time > library paths, etc. These must not be overridden by test cases or they > will inevitably fail. We want to build most bpf-unknown-none test files with -mxbpf, but not all. I wasn't aware of the "absolutely require" nature of the board flags... then it is clear we need to find another strategy, like specifying it in the individual test files/dg-options.