Profile-directed feedback and remote testing

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:59:55PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> When we generate data for feedback, we insert the .gcda name into the 
> object file as an absolute path.  As a result, when we try to do remote 
> testing, we lose, as, in general the remote file system does not have 
> the same file hierarchy as the build system.
> 
> I understand why we generate an asbolute path; we want to make sure that 
> the data ends up there, not in the directory where the user happens to 
> run the program.  So, I intend to disable these tests when $host != 
> $target.  Any objections, or better ideas?

It would be nice if we could preserve the ability to run them - when
your build directory is mounted on the target system at the same path,
the tests will pass.  Perhaps a compiler option, as Gabriel
suggested...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC