[LLVMdev] question about running llvm test-suite on remote machine

[Jose Rangel]

Hi Bob,

 

Thanks a lot for the explanation. I think I'll try using the shared
directory for now, but I'll keep the other capability in mind since it
would be cool to have.

 

Regards,

 

Jose

 

 

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From: Bob Wilson [mailto:bob.wilson at apple.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:54 PM
To: Jose Rangel
Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] question about running llvm test-suite on remote
machine

 

 

On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Jose Rangel wrote:





Hi,

 

I've looked into use of the remote variables: REMOTE_HOST,
REMOTE_CLIENT, REMOTE_USER, etc. Can you tell me how exactly one uses
these variables to run the llvm test-suite remotely?

 

As far as I can tell, the local host and remote host directory
structures have to match exactly. In addition, it seems that the remote
host has to pre-generate building the test executables, while the local
host just executes them. Is that correct? If that is the case, I'm not
sure what the benefit is.

 

I was expecting that the local host running the tests would compile the
binaries and then somehow transfer them to the remote host for execution
which is something that dejagnu seems capable of doing. It seems that
the llvm test-suite is doing something different. Perhaps you are using
shared network drives between local and remote hosts which would make
this type of setup work. It also seems like this is not documented on
how to do remote testing.

 

If someone could tell me how this should be used, I'd greatly appreciate
it.

 

 

Your guesses are correct.  All the files must reside on a file system
shared between the two machines, and they must be mounted so that the
same paths work on both.

 

The tests are compiled on the local machine, and the various REMOTE
settings are then used to run the resulting binaries on the remote
machine.  For example, if you set REMOTE_CLIENT=ssh, the tests will be
run via ssh on REMOTE_HOST.

 

It should not be too hard to transfer the files to the remote host and
then transfer the output back, but no one has done that yet.  If you're
interested in working on that, it would be much appreciated.

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