Re: isremote and unix board special handling question

[Pedro Alves]

On 11/30/2018 11:48 PM, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-11-29 at 22:59 +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, GDB does in its internal board files.  Non-remote boards source
>> a file with this:
>>
>> ~~~~~
>>   16 # By default, DejaGnu makes the board remote unless the board
>> name
>>   17 # matches localhost.  Sourcing this script from a board file
>> forces
>>   18 # the board to be NOT remote.
>>   19
>>   20 global board
>>   21 global board_info
>>   22 # Remove any target variant specifications from the name.
>>   23 set baseboard [lindex [split $board "/"] 0]
>>   24 set board_info($baseboard,isremote) 0
>> ~~~~~
> 
> Just to return to my original question, I added 
> 
>       unset_board_info isremote
> 
> in front of
> 
>       set_board_info isremote 0
> 
> and I got the behaviour I expected/wanted.  I am still
> thinking about using a different target/site.exp file
> instead of a new baseboard but I haven't actually tried
> it yet.

Note that the unset_board_info/set_board_info approach won't
work if you pass down a target variant specification, like
e.g. '--target_board=yourboardname/-m32'.

That's the reason for the "Remove any target variant"... part in
the hack above.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves