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Re: ACATS & GCC testsuite
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: guerby at acm dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:46:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: ACATS & GCC testsuite
- References: <10303281040.AA27659@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:40:37AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I'm not sure why autogen is needed for testing, the
> only thing you need is dejagnu and then "make -k check"
> just works. (I have dejagnu-1.4.2-6 on my RedHat 8.0 machine).
>
> But you also have to do a full build and doing it in maintainer-mode is
> best. Those require automake, autogen, and autoheader.
Why is it "best"? Most other maintainers find it unnecessary unless
you're working with the generated files, and generally even if you are
you can just regenerate the ones you need.
It's simpler, quicker, and more consistent not to.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer