Re: gcc 3.4.0 testsuite gives over 5000 g++ errors

[Claudio Bley <bley at cs dot uni-magdeburg dot de>]

Hi.

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:47:27AM +1000, Paul C. Leopardi wrote:
> Oops, I had 
> "alias runtest 'runtest -v'" instead of 
> "alias runtest='runtest -v'"
> 
> I'm running "make -k check" again, with
> "alias runtest='runtest -v -v -v'"

Aliases are a shell mechanism, and hence are not exported to subshells or 
commands since expansion takes place before a command is executed. And they 
are also not expanded in non-interactive shells by default.

(at least that's the case for bash)

So, to make sure that "runtest -v -v -v" is called rather than just `runtest' 
better make a little sh script called `runtest' and place it somewhere in your 
PATH before the real runtest program; e.g.:

#!/bin/sh

echo "( runtest -v -v -v )" 1>&2
/usr/bin/runtest -v -v -v "$@"

-- 
Claudio