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Re: Install instructions + dejagnu suggestion
- To: "Lorenzo M. Catucci" <lorenzo at argon dot roma2 dot infn dot it>
- Subject: Re: Install instructions + dejagnu suggestion
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 07:31:27 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.971201093807.17181A-100000@argon.roma2.infn.it>you
write:
> Now, at first the egcs thing: I think the instructions should contain some
> hint to the
> --program-prefix
> configure option, which could be useful to those who would like to have
> both GNU gcc and egcs available (and was noted in some message in the
> mailing list).
We're recommending using --prefix and a few symlinks. It avoids problems
with g++ header file conflicts. See the faq.
> Then, even though I'm not sure it belongs here, the dejagnu
> question/suggestion: in as much as I can see, deja runs at all from expect
> scripts. Shouldn't then be possible to do some tests to see if expect and
> tcl/tk have been installed on the system before the build? This comes from
> bad results I got from a make check inside dejagnu build directory in a
> debian system where I had both tcl/tk installed, but unrecognized... I
> mean: trying to call tclsh and expect (or which tclsh, expect) could let
> the install run without recompiling both interpreters.
This is outside the scope of egcs -- we really don't want to any more time in
burn time in dejagnu than is absolutely necessary.
You might take this up with the dejagnu folks though.... dejagnu@cygnus.com
jeff