From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: "Lorenzo M. Catucci" Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Install instructions + dejagnu suggestion Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 07:38:00 -0000 Message-id: <10126.880986687@hurl.cygnus.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00023.html In message < Pine.LNX.3.96.971201093807.17181A-100000@argon.roma2.infn.it >you write: > Now, at first the egcs thing: I think the instructions should contain some > hint to the > --program-prefix > configure option, which could be useful to those who would like to have > both GNU gcc and egcs available (and was noted in some message in the > mailing list). We're recommending using --prefix and a few symlinks. It avoids problems with g++ header file conflicts. See the faq. > Then, even though I'm not sure it belongs here, the dejagnu > question/suggestion: in as much as I can see, deja runs at all from expect > scripts. Shouldn't then be possible to do some tests to see if expect and > tcl/tk have been installed on the system before the build? This comes from > bad results I got from a make check inside dejagnu build directory in a > debian system where I had both tcl/tk installed, but unrecognized... I > mean: trying to call tclsh and expect (or which tclsh, expect) could let > the install run without recompiling both interpreters. This is outside the scope of egcs -- we really don't want to any more time in burn time in dejagnu than is absolutely necessary. You might take this up with the dejagnu folks though.... dejagnu@cygnus.com jeff