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Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite)
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: guerby at acm dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:28:03 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite)
> Nothing involving manually changing things like PATH is "100% reliable".
> It's always too easy to forget to change PATH or forget to change it back.
>
> A testing procedure that depends on such manual operations is inherently
> error-prone because of the significant risk of forgetting to do them.
If this is really impossible for you to do right, make a little script
that does the necessary changes. You are making very heavy weather of
a simple matter.