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Re: Installation proposal

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:50:33 -0800
Subject: Re: Installation proposal
References: <11560000.1014832588@warlock.codesourcery.com> <3C7D2D69.8000107@acm.org>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:03:05PM +0100, Laurent Guerby wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >What's good about this?
> >
> >1. The testing we do is much more like the testing the user will do.
> >
> >  In particular, to test, say, g++, we would just run
> >  "install/bin/g++", not "g++ -B... -nostdinc++ -I..."
> 
> Testing anything but the installed compiler is a mistake, the testsuite
> should be completely separated from the build process, and running
> the test suite should take place after the install step IMHO.

But you want to be able to test the compiler *before* you install it,
don't you?

zw

References:
- Installation proposal
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: Installation proposal
  - From: Laurent Guerby

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