I'm new to this list after spending most of the day poking
around archives, FAQs and other dusty corners of the internet.
I'm desperately looking for a simple explanation of how to
perform what I thought was a simple task.
I have succesfully built the GNU Toolchain, with GCC 3.3, on
an x86 box running Redhat 9, targetting PowerPC also running
a version of Linux. It works! I can build a program on the
x86 box and run it on the PPC box. Now I want to run the GCC
testsuite. That's all.
I fetched recent source for Dejagnu, Expect, and Tcl/Tk, built
everything and am hopelessly lost in a mountain of complexity.
It's easy to start the suite going, but it immediately announces
that it will run the tests on the local system - and that that's
probably wrong. But it doesn't suggest what might be right
nor how to achieve it.
Next I followed Rob Savoye's steps in "DejaGnu: The GNU
Testing Framework" and, again, it all worked as advertized.
I tried to apply the steps to the GCC testsuite, but ...
At every "execute" test, it fails trying to run a PPC executable
on x86. I can't believe I'm the first to try this.