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
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> 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.