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Re: (SOLVED) Re: GCC 4.0.1 testsuite uses installed g++ instead ofnewly bootstrapped g++
On 28 Jul 2005, Joe Buck announced authoritatively:
> Glad you found this. Your experience is why I've always objected when
> someone suggests a .gccrc or a GCC_OPTIONS environment variable or the
> like; people will forget that they have such files and report
> unreproducible bugs.
Instead, people can wrap GCC in shell scripts, use site-config files,
use automated build infrastructures... we already *have* ways to do
this, some with all the downsides of a .gccrc: the only advantage
is that things like specs files are ill-documented, so people don't
mess with them unless they know what they're doing.
Fundamentally, what we want is `gcc -v' output :) don't the bug
reporting guidelines already ask for this?
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