Re: gnulib-tool: make --with-tests more useful

[Eric Blake]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to Bruno Haible on 1/27/2007 6:53 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> The directories created by --create-testdir --with-tests and
> --create-megatestdir --with-tests currently don't test a lot when doing
> cross-compiles. Because when cross-compiling, you cannot run "make check" -
> it would try to execute the test programs, which always fails.

An over-generalization.  'make check' generally doesn't work when
cross-compiling, but there are instances such as compiling 64-bit using
32-bit libraries on a 64-bit machine, or compiling for mingw from cygwin,
or even when compiling where a cross-emulator is also available, can all
run cross-compiled binaries.

That said, your patch is still the correct thing to do.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFu2GI84KuGfSFAYARAqeFAKC6Jr/mqR5QkTvMOYt8iQGDdDBJPgCgjV94
LY+6FnBNFU4SfDrZQ2uos2c=
=LKc/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----