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Re: Installation proposal
- From: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- To: guerby at acm dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:04:01 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Installation proposal
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:03:05 +0100
> From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
> To: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
> CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Testing anything but the installed compiler is a mistake,
I disagree. When developing, being able to test early, and often and
with low latency is useful. During normal development I only do a
make install once every few months. After we have a system that
builds an incremental install tree directly, we can revisit this.