[LLVMdev] install-bytecode no longer works

Tanya Lattner tonic at nondot.org
Fri Nov 12 12:11:06 PST 2004


> On the other hand, I do feel strongly about the tests in llvm-test that
> are now failing on me because they explicitly include alloca.h, a file
> that does not exist on FreeBSD.  I can supply a patch to take out the
> include, of course, but the problem then becomes that the tests will
> then fail on other Unix platforms.  Some way is needed to make the tests
> platform-independent.  As a workaround for now I guess I can add an
> empty alloca.h file.

The test could always be marked XFAIL for FreeBSD. This can easily be done
with the dejagnu support. Other ideas are that certain directories in the
test suite could only be run on certain platforms (also easily done with
dejagnu).

-Tanya




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