On 30 July 2016 at 03:40, Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Prathamesh Kulkarni wrote: > >> >> GCC can run on other systems besides OSX and GNU/Linux, how can you >> >> test that your change does not break anything on those systems? >> >> >> > Well I have access to these two systems only. How would you suggest I >> > test my patches on all possible systems? >> Maybe building contrib/config-list.mk could help ? AFAIK, it will cross build >> the gcc tree for different targets, but not run the testsuite, however >> I could be wrong. > > Building for different targets is fairly irrelevant here; the issue is > building for different hosts, which is harder. > > (It's possible there are some portability interfaces only used on > particular targets, but that's not the main use case for libiberty in > GCC.) Ah indeed, libiberty/gnulib would be built for hosts. Thanks for pointing out!
Thanks, Prathamesh > > -- > Joseph S. Myers > jos...@codesourcery.com
