From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18139 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2002 20:19:58 -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 18060 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2002 20:19:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monkey.daikokuya.demon.co.uk) (158.152.184.26) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2002 20:19:56 -0000 Received: from neil by monkey.daikokuya.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16gAYG-00080T-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:19:48 +0000 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:52:00 -0000 To: Laurent Guerby Cc: Mark Mitchell , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Installation proposal Message-ID: <20020227201947.GC30688@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> References: <11560000.1014832588@warlock.codesourcery.com> <3C7D2D69.8000107@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C7D2D69.8000107@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: Neil Booth X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg01698.txt.bz2 Laurent Guerby wrote:- > Testing anything but the installed compiler is a mistake, the testsuite > should be completely separated from the build process, and running > the test suite should take place after the install step IMHO. FWIW I've always appreciated being able to test the compiler without installing it. I don't particularly want to install every compiler I bootstrap. Neil.