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Re: [patch] libffi testsuite standalone vs. gcc


Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> * Andreas Tobler wrote on Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:36:25PM CEST:
>> this is a try to keep the differences between the gcc-libffi testsuite  
>> and the libffi-standalone minimal.
> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
>> 	* configure.ac: Introduce a STANDALONE variable to be able to run the
>> 	testsuite accordingly.
> 
> Yes, unless standalone libffi routine uses a bootstrap script that sets
> STANDALONE, you should default to the stand-alone version, and the
> in-GCC version should key off some value passed from the toplevel
> makefile.
> 
> However, I don't think you can easily postpone the decision of
> stand-alone-ness until configure time for all differences so easily,
> for autoconf-time differences you'd use a m4 macro not a shell variable.

OK, so do you have a better solution?  Patches welcome.

Andrew.


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