Why doesn't ADA testsuite use newly built gnatchop/gnatmake?

[Zack Weinberg]

"Rolf Ebert" <rolf.ebert.gcc@gmx.de> writes:

>> - The Ada testsuite uses the newly built gnatchop/gnatmake
>
> That's not completely true.  run_all.sh uses gnatmake and gnatchop from the
> PATH and provides the --GCC= option for internal use of the newly built
> compiler. 

If it's not testing the newly built gnatmake and gnatchop it's not
doing its job.

> But that should only be a problem if you modify gnatmake or gnatchop
> itself.

Or if gratuitous incompatibilities have been introduced between
the installed version of gnatmake/gnatchop and the just-built
version.  I do not know whether this has happened, but I do not
trust it not to have.

zw