Re: [PATCH] tests/vpci: Use $(CC) instead of $(HOSTCC)

["Orzel, Michal" <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>]

On 02/06/2025 17:50, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 02.06.2025 17:36, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 02/06/2025 4:09 pm, Michal Orzel wrote:
>>> These tests are supposed to run on target. HOSTCC can be different than
>>> CC (when cross-compiling). At the moment, tests installation would put
>>> a binary of a wrong format in the destdir.
>>>
>>> Fixes: e90580f25bd7 ("vpci: introduce basic handlers to trap accesses to 
>>> the PCI config space")
>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Oh.  This didn't explode in GitlabCI because there's no ARM version of
>> *-tools-tests-*.
>>
>> Can we fix that too please, seeing as there is a real ARM board?
>>
>> Also, I guess we have to finally sort out the CC vs HOSTCC debate.
> 
> I think the situation here makes pretty clear that HOSTCC is almost always
> wrong to use for tests/. The emulator test harness is special in that it (in
> principle) needs a target compiler (CC) and additionally an x86 one (with no
> present representation). The present way of (partly) distinguishing the two
> by using CC and HOSTCC was assigning wrong meaning to one (perhaps both) of
> them. The (or maybe just my) problem is that in the toolchain world it is
> build, host, and target which are distinguished. As per Michal's description
> my understanding is that HOSTCC is matching "build" there, not "host".
Yes, I found this issue while building latest Xen with Yocto. Build is x86, host
is Arm. HOSTCC is x86 gcc, CC is Arm gcc.

I take as this patch is waiting for a maintainer tag? Not that it needs to wait
for some generic cleanup?

~Michal