Re: egcs 1.0.2

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <351FD0C9.21BD7E3E@stavanger.geoquest.slb.com>you write:
  > There are however some issues I'd like to address
  > 
  > Build, Test & Install
  > =====================
  > 
  >      * make -k check didn't run any testsuites in the gcc area, and
  >        the only part being tested seems to be libio.  Anyway, the test
  >        completes after 4 min on an Ultra-30 which tells me that not very
  >        much has been tested.  Do these tests require a full install of
  >        dejagnu?  configure in dejagnu ended up with
  >        "... no X based programs will be installed."
"make check" from the toplevel should have run the testsuite in
the gcc directory.

Probably the first thing to do is for you to run running it within
the gcc directory yourself.  That may tell us why it failed to run
from the toplevel directory.

  >      * there are a few compiler warnings, both when building stage1 using
  >        native sun cc, and when building stage{N} using stage{N-1}.
Yes.  We are working on these.

  >      * although I provided a program-prefix to configure, the programs
  >        installed still have the standard names (gcc, g++ etc), I'd expected
  >        egcs-gcc, egcs-g++ etc.
Known bug.  A patch (or even analysis) for the bug would be greatly
appreciated :-)

jeff