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Re: Notes from the testing BOF at the summit
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 22:30, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
>
> > Is there also a way to run the testsuite with an installed compiler (in
> > PATH) instead of in the build directory before install?
>
> See revision 1.102 of htdocs/gcc-2.95/regress.html. (This is indeed a
> more than usually obscure location for documentation, and the
> documentation only discusses running front end testsuites.)
Well I guess it could be off-net, encrypted and in a closed bunker, that
would make it less accessible :) :). Thanks for the pointer!
> Nominal release policy as stated in gcc-3.4/criteria.html is still that the
> current testsuite is run against old releases like that when preparing a
> release.
Would be great IMHO if this would be the normal day-to-day testing
method too. Install process needs testing too, given our configure
and Makefile machinery...
Laurent