Patch: Run JNI tests using interpreter
Bryce McKinlay
mckinlay@redhat.com
Thu May 6 15:07:00 GMT 2004
Ranjit Mathew wrote:
>Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>
>
>>+ # libjava_find_gij will return `gij' if it couldn't find the
>>+ # program; in this case we want to skip the test.
>>
>>
>
>You know, a safeguard like this seems necessary for
>the testsuite as a whole - don't blindly run bare "gij"
>or "gcj".
>
>What happened some time back is that I tried out the
>"make new_bootstrap" option and found out that quite
>a lot of libjava tests were failing.
>
>Turns out that the "gcj" being picked up was the
>Red Hat installed 3.2.3 gcj on the system and not
>the just built "gcj" because of a minor configury
>issue with "new_bootstrap".
>
>
Looking at libjava.exp, it does default to running bare "gcj" etc, but
only if it cant find them in the build directory. I guess in theory it
might be useful to be able run the testsuite against an installed gcj
rather than the build gcj, however. Does anyone do this?
Regards
Bryce
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