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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:43:00 -0000
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [testsuite, build] Convert boehm-gc testsuite to DejaGnu (PR boehm-gc/11412)
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Dave Korn wrote:

>   Perhaps just build it in the makefile, as at present, and make the .la file
> a dependency of the check target, so that it gets built before starting the
> testrun?  (Or conceivably if worried about it failing to build on some target

Please no building of any files required by testsuites (other than 
site.exp) from makefiles; that breaks installed toolchain testing (where 
you should only need to create site.exp and run runtest with appropriate 
options).

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Joseph S. Myers
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