Installation proposal

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 27 12:52:00 GMT 2002


Laurent Guerby wrote:-

> Testing anything but the installed compiler is a mistake, the testsuite
> should be completely separated from the build process, and running
> the test suite should take place after the install step IMHO.

FWIW I've always appreciated being able to test the compiler without
installing it.  I don't particularly want to install every compiler I
bootstrap.

Neil.



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