From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19562 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2001 11:12:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 19523 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 11:12:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu) (128.122.140.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 11:12:16 -0000 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA05851; Fri, 7 Dec 01 06:06:48 EST Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 03:18:00 -0000 From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <10112071106.AA05851@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> To: zack@codesourcery.com Subject: Re: ACATS legal status cleared by FSF Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00355.txt.bz2 This is all fair. How about a compromise position where you check the B tests into the CVS tree but don't bother adding dejagnu harnesses for them. They are then instantly available if they are needed. The issue is the *baselines*, not either the B tests themselves or the test harness. They must be checked in *and* actively maintained if they are to be "instantly available". One possibility is to run the B tests in a non-conventional way, where all the test harness does is to check for the presence of at least one error line for each line marked ERROR. I don't know how hard such a harness is to write, and that's not the way B tests are usually done, but might work. That would just leave the issue of splits, not baselines, and those change less often.