Re: What is a successful build?

[Christian Jönsson <chj at j-son dot org>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:28:40PM -0500, Stephen L Moshier wrote:
> 
> According to
> 
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/buildstat.html
> 
> gcc-3.0.4 builds successfully on various computers, but the
> regression test results are not discussed very much.
> 
> For example,
> 
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg01345.html
> 
> says it builds on sparc-sun-solaris2.7 but the message does not mention
> the 450 unexpected libjava failures and other testsuite failures that
> happened when I tried to build it.  The documentation does not seem to
> mention anything special about java on this computer system, and four
> different choices of configuration options gave substantially
> identical results.  Are these regressions well known?  Are these
> problems documented somewhere?  Is this really a success?

well, the wording is successful build, right? :-) what has that to do
with test suite output? that's not part of the build, that's part of
the *check* of the built compilers and libraries and stuff.

seriously, I agree with what you mean. this could perhaps be addressed
somewhere by someone.

Cheers,


/ChJ