[ada, testsuite] gnat.dg cleanup

Rainer Orth ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Tue Jan 11 18:12:00 GMT 2011


Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> writes:

>> > There are indeed far more tests in ada/acats/tests/gcc...  There are few
>> > such tests simply because we try and reduce testcases as much as possible.
>> 
>> Yes, but that's not always possible and when you do need multiple file tests,
>> it's such a pain that basically, it's an incentive not to put any test at
>> all.
>> 
>> The fact that several acats tests also require multiple files is indeed a
>> good sign that the current infrastructure isn't very friendly.
>
> ACATS also uses gnatchop, may be we could teach dejagnu
> about gnatchop'ing, ie recognize file like "testname.ada"
> and do "gnatchop testname.ada; gnatmake testname".

That's the next step I plan for the ACATS to DejaGnu conversion.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help for the `cleanup after multiple file
test' part.

	Rainer

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