Re: Running gas and ld test suites remotely.

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Jitendra,

> I am using powerpc as machine and my host machine is x86.

Have you considered using a powerpc simulator running on the x86 host as 
an alternative test environment ?  This definitely works.

> I want to use ssh for session
> protocol and scp for transfer protocol. I have successfully run binutils
> test suite remotely but gas and ld test suites runs only on host for the
> similar configurations as binutils. 

Do you mean that the GAS executable you have runs on the x86 host and 
produces ppc object files, or that it runs on the remote powerpc machine 
and produces native object files ?  In the former case there really is 
no advantage to taking the created object file, downloading it to the 
test machine, then uploading it back to the host so that objdump can be 
run on it.  ie - the GAS testsuite does not check to see if *working* 
executables can be created.  All it does is check to see if assembler 
source files will assemble to certain expected binary patterns.  There 
is no need for an execution environment for the GAS testsuite - nothing 
is ever executed.

Cheers
  Nick