gdb/testsuite/lib/future.exp: follow dejagnu default_target_compile
GDB's testsuite can override dejagnu's default_target_compile if the
system provided dejagnu installation does not provide support to compile
languages GDB needs.
Recent version of dejagnu (1.6.3, installed on RHEL-9) includes
ba60272
"Establish a default C compiler by evaluating [find_gcc] if no other
compiler is given."[1]. This commit removed calls such as
`set_board_info compiler "[find_gcc]"` from the various baseboards
and has default_target_compile call `find_gcc` itself to find a compiler
if none was specified by the board description.
On systems with dejagnu-1.6.3, if GDB's overrides is needed to support
languages still unknown to dejagnu, we end up in the following
situation:
- The system board files do not set the C compiler anymore,
- GDB's replacement for default_target_compile assumes that the
compiler should have been set up by the board file.
In this situation, no one sets the C compiler for the board and as a
result many test are not compiled and not executed:
[...]
Running .../gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bt-on-error-and-warning.exp ...
gdb compile failed, default_target_compile: No compiler to compile with
Running .../gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/dprintf-non-stop.exp ...
gdb compile failed, default_target_compile: No compiler to compile with
Running .../gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/structs3.exp ...
gdb compile failed, default_target_compile: No compiler to compile with
[...]
We are observing this error with ROCgdb[2], a downstream port of GDB
supporting AMD GPUs. This port needs to use GDB's override of
default_target_compile to compile HIP programs since dejagnu does not
provide support for this language yet.
This patch changes gdb_default_target_compile_1 in a similar way
default_target_compile has been updated so both implementations remain
compatible. Even if this is not strictly required by GDB just yet,
I believe keeping both implementations in sync desirable.
Using board files provided with dejagnu <=1.6.2 is still supported: if
the compiler is set by the board file, gdb_default_target_compile_1 uses
it and does not need `find_gcc`.
Patch tested on x86_64 RHEL-9 and ubuntu-20.04 on top of GDB and ROCgdb.
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=dejagnu.git;a=commit;h=
ba60272a5ac6f6a7012acca03f596a6ed003f044
[2] https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/ROCgdb
Change-Id: Ibff52684d9cab8243a7c6748ecbd29f50c37e669