Re: Patch: Run JNI tests using interpreter

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Ranjit" == Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gmail.com> writes:
 > 
 > Ranjit> Only if the testsuite is used independently of a GCC
 > Ranjit> build would this $PATH based picking up of "gcj"
 > Ranjit> make sense.
 > 
 > This used to be a supported way of running the test suite -- Cygnus
 > releng did things this way.  The idea was, you test the install tree,
 > not the build tree (IMO a smart thing to do if you're shipping a
 > binary install).

It has the huge advantage that you're testing the thing in place,
where it gets installed.  And this is a huge advantage for testsing
cross-compilers.  When cross-compilers fail, it's often because they
weren't installed ocrrectly.

Andrew.