Re: [3.4 PATCH] backport dg-skip-if

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caipclassic.rutgers.edu> writes:

|  > We're release day-1.  What are the consequences for the testsuites.
|  > How long will it take you?
|  > Thanks,
|  > -- Gaby
| 
| Understood, I don't see a need to rush in under the deadline.  I would
| be happy either way if we did this before or after 3.4.5 is out the
| door since you're planning to release a 3.4.6.  If you do feel this is
| okay for 3.4.5 and Janis applies her testsuite patch, I can have some
| of the the testcases updated in about an hour after that.  Kean has a
| few additional changes he's been applying to 4.0 that I've asked him
| to backport once this is settled.  I'm going to apply Janis' patch and
| run the testsuite with my testcase changes.
| 
| The practical consequence for the testsuite is that the following
| spurious failures (and perhaps more?) will go away when running with
| -fpic/-fPIC.  That will leave only the real bugs behind which won't
| get lost for all the noise.

Thanks for the explanation.  You hve green light.

-- Gaby