I'm at Binutils tag binutils-2_31, and there is a directory:
gas/testsuite
with some tests that I'm interested in.
I've compiled the entire binutils with:
./configure
make
but the directory gas/testsuite didn't seem to be built.
How to build and run those tests?
Hopefully in verbose mode so I can see the full GAS command line.
I've managed to run the tests with:
sudo apt-get install dejagnu
cd gas
make check
This runs the tests just for the target architecture you configured for of course. For example, for aarch64 tests:
./configure --target aarch64-elf
cd gas
make check
runs only the tests under:
gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64
You can confirm this by hacking one of the tests to fail. E.g., try editing:
gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64/addsub.s
to something wrong and watch it report a failure.
The generated log files seem to contain more information about what was run exactly:
gas/testsuite/gas.log
gas/testsuite/gas.sum
Found with my loyal friends git clean -xdn and ls -lSr.
Tested in Ubuntu 16.04.
