Re: PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets

[Dan Kegel <dank-gcc at kegel dot com>]

Jason Thorpe wrote:

> 2. It does not appear as if the testsuite is run in rsh mode very often.
> Because I have a number of slow targets to support, I really like to run
> the testsuite on a host, and use the rsh method to run execute tests on
> the target.  However, I have run into problems with some of the tests
> in this type of configuration, and I have little time to actually track
> them down at the moment.
>
> Obviously, if the scripts mentioned in (1) supported a host-rsh-target
> setup, that'd be extra cool :-)

Hear, hear!  I'm going to be trying this again shortly.

BTW my impression is that rsh itself is a bit hard to get working these days.
I hacked up an rshd.c for embedded machines to remove all security;
that makes it a bit easier to get up and running.  (Don't try this
when connected to the internet, of course...)
- Dan

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