Re: FAQ entry: making multiple passes of testsuite.

[Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>]

>>>>> "RL" == Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com> writes:

 RL> +Or, if you use <code>make check</code> you can use the
 RL> +<code>make</code> variable <code>RUNTESTFLAGS</code>, e.g:
 RL> +<pre>
 RL> +  make RUNTESTFLAGS='--target_board "unix{-fPIC,-fpic,}"' check-gcc
 RL> +</pre>
 RL> +<p>Either of these examples will run the tests three times.   Once 
 RL> +with <code>-fPIC</code>, once with <code>-fpic</code>, and once with 
 RL> +no additional flags.
 RL> +<p>This technique is particularly useful on multilibbed targets.

However, this doesn't currently find the correct multilibrary, at
least for Fortran tests on Irix and SunOS4, though there seems to be
code there intended to do so.  I don't think I'm Tclish enough to
investigate.