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Re: Testsuite and Fortran
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: Testsuite and Fortran
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:35:21 +0100
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101222125580.52312-100000@taygeta.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > I usually configure my tree without Fortran.
>
> I realized that I haven't been clear enough!
>
> The problem is that I configured *without* Fortran, and then the testsuite
> used an old version of g77 in my path.
>
> There are two bugs here, IMO:
>
> 1. Frontends that have not been configured should not be tested by
> make check.
>
> 2. Even *if* frontend that has not been configured is tested (either
> as a result of the first bug or explicitly), never ever should an
> installed version be used, just because it is in the path.
>
> Instead, an error message should be issued.
Well, it was clear enough for me. Unfortunately, I do not know enough
of the dejagnu infrastructure to fix this "issue" (which I think is a
bug, too).
Cheers,
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