Re: Some shortcomings in gtestutils

[Nicola Fontana <ntd entidi it>]

Il Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:31:33 +0000 Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk> scrisse:

> On 21/02/13 11:42, Nicola Fontana wrote:
> > * There is no way to do a make check while cross-compiling, by
> >   using wine for example.
>
> If you're on a Linux distribution whose Wine packaging sets up
> binfmt_misc to run Windows executables through Wine (Debian does), then
> this works:
>
>     chmod +x notepad.exe
>     ./notepad.exe

I was thinking more along the lines of providing out-of-box
support from gtester, such as:

gtester --launcher=wine mytest

> and if that works, then in principle so does 'make check'. In practice
> it probably won't, until you apply suitable workarounds (like scattering
> $(EXEEXT) throughout the regression tests).

Could you elaborate on why do you think it probably wont work?
I thought binfmt was a viable work-around.

Ciao.
-- 
Nicola