[RFC] make check-abi

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:06:42AM -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> 
> Don't suppose I could get you to post an updated patch....

It will be a while, but yeah.


> > Then baselines can go in a file named after the platform, e.g.,
> > config/abi-3.2/<target_triplet>, and we can point a variable there using
> > the last stanza in configure.target if we need to override choices.
> 
> Ok. Makes sense, where target_triplet is from config.guess, right?

Indirectly, yes.  All of the Makefiles already have a target_triplet
variable set for us.


> Ok. Well, this would take care of the other Makefile issues, namely make
> check-abi being unconditional at the moment. Then the
> testsuite/Makefile.am dependiencies could get removed.
> 
> Building abi_check.cc always isn't a big deal to me. Sound ok?

I feel always building the abi_check executable is a good thing.  One more
exercise of the freshly-built compiler can't hurt.


Phil

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