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Re: gfortran test runs
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:29:09PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:
> Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
> > It really shouldn't be necessary for gcc developers to have to install
> > components into /usr/lib (or any other system directory) in order to be
> > able to develop and test the compiler.
>
> While I agree with this sentiment (I got bitten by this situation on my
> Alpha machine that's not on a network and can't be easily apt-get update
> && apt-get dist-upgrade'd), but I sincerely ask the C crowd whether they
> think they can implement the whole of C99 without extensive support for
> compile time floating point manipulation.
I run tests for gcc on a large variety of machines. For most of these
machines, I don't have root. If I can't do tests without modifying
/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, I can't do tests.
Requiring gmp, etc. is fine; it should suffice to install it in the same
prefix as for gcc and have everything Just Work. It's OK if the user has
to put $prefix/lib into LD_LIBRARY_PATH or the equivalent, but no other
special handling should be required.